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#NIGERIA DECIDES2023: APC’s Tonye Cole calls for cancellation of Rivers guv’ship election

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Tonye Cole, has called for the cancellation of the March 18, 2023, Rivers State governorship election.

Speaking at a press conference, on Tuesday, in Port Harcourt, the state capital, Mr. Cole described the outcome of the governorship election as a ‘rape of democracy’.

His words, “Law-abiding citizens were subject to flogging, abuse and threat to life for choosing to vote APC. People were told to vote for PDP and nothing else.”

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Recall that the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Sir Siminalayi Fubara, had been returned the winner of the 2023 governorship election in Rivers State.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had said that Sim Fubara scored 302,614 votes to win the election officially declared, on Monday, after collating results from all the local government areas at its state headquarters, in Port Harcourt.

Coming behind Sir Fubara, Mr. Cole had 95,274 votes while Beatrice Itubo of the Labour Party scored 22,224 votes to come third.

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