Charles Adias, collation officer for the presidential election in Rivers state, says some members of the Labour Party (LP) have accused him manipulating and rigging election. <\/p>\n
Adias, who is the vice-chancellor of the Federal University Otuoke in Bayelsa state, made this known on Monday in Port Harcourt while addressing Deinye Pepple, the LP agent. <\/p>\n
Pepple, while making observations, had faulted some results but commended the collation officer of the Ogba\/Egbema\/Ndoni LGA.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the results he presented tallies with what I have from the polling units,\u201d Pepple said. <\/p>\n
In his response, Adias called the attention of Pepple to the actions of some LP members, saying he had received numerous phone calls from persons identified as the party\u2019s supporters who accused him of election rigging.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the past two days, I have been receiving threats from members of your party,\u201d Adias told the LP agent. <\/p>\n
\u201cEven as I am seated here, for every minute, I have received at least 10 calls from members of your party. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy telephone number and my face has been posted on all your platforms to the extent that I am here to rig the elections against their party. <\/p>\n
\u201cI believe I should address you so that you can tell your members that what we do here is transparency. We do not have any regard for what has happened before here.\u201d <\/p>\n
Adias added that his duty as the collation officer for the presidential election in the state was to receive results from local government areas and collate them as presented.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd this is for the parties. Ensure that if you have issues about results and votes, go back to the level of the polling units and do not come back here and transfer aggressions to members of the society that are here offering free services to this nation,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cAs academics, our duties are to teach through research and development and we are called upon to serve society through community service, and this little we are doing is part of that responsibility.<\/p>\n
\u201cSociety should accept it that way and praise us for even standing up to serve this country.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Charles Adias, collation officer for the presidential election in Rivers state, says some members of the Labour Party (LP) have accused him manipulating and rigging election. Adias, who is the vice-chancellor of the Federal University Otuoke in Bayelsa state, made this known on Monday in Port Harcourt while addressing Deinye Pepple, the LP agent. Pepple, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":211909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"custom","single_blog_custom":"211693","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"single-left","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"floatbottom","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":{"override_bookmark_button":"0","override_show_bookmark_button":"0"},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2196,1826,34661,1914],"class_list":["post-252098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-2023-election","tag-2023-presidency","tag-labour-party","tag-rivers"],"yoast_head":"\n