Rivers: $100m bribery scam rocks NDDC, INEC

Did President Goodluck Jonathan force the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, to post his relation, Mrs. Gesila Khan, to Rivers State as the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) to manipulate the March 28 and April 11 general elections in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)?
What is the involvement of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) in the alleged plot to manipulate results of the polls in the South-South state?
Who gave the NDDC Executive Director, Finance and Administration, Dr. Henry Ogiri, the order to work closely with Mrs. Khan to ensure that Jonathan wins on March 28 while the PDP governorship candidate, Chief Nyesom Wike, wins on April 11?
Is it true that $100 million has been set aside to be deposited into the account of Mrs. Khan before the end of the week?
Is it also true that Ogiri purchased a new Toyota Prado Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) for Mrs. Gesila Khan and the SUV is currently parked in her house in Ogbia, Bayelsa State?
These are some of the questions on the lips of residents of Rivers State when the state All Progressives Congress (APC) made the revelations on Wednesday.
The state APC alerted the public, in statement by the Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, on efforts being made by Jonathan and the PDP to manipulate results of the elections.
Ikanya said: “Acting according to the script, Dr Ogiri has purchased a brand new Prado Jeep for Mrs. Gesila Khan and the Jeep is currently parked at the village of Mrs. Khan in Ogbia, Bayelsa State. In addition, Dr Ogiri has set aside a whopping sum of $100 million to be deposited into the account of Mrs. Khan before the week runs off.
“To perfect the plans of winning Rivers State at all costs, Mrs. Khan, who is from President Jonathan’s village and his very close relation, was deliberately posted to Rivers recently to ensure that PDP wins the state, despite having been overwhelmingly rejected by our people. For INEC to post President Jonathan’s kinswoman to supervise the elections in Rivers State, which he has personally confessed neglecting deliberately in his six years in office, simply betrays the Presidency’s desperation to rig the elections as PDP can never win any free and fair polls in Rivers State.”
Ikanya said that the strategy of compromising INEC to pave the way for the use of the allegedly missing 14,000 PVCs and PDP’s cloned cards was coming after PDP failed to wear down Rivers APC through the killing and detaining of several of its members.
“We will like the security organs to investigate this woman and retrieve this car and expose Dr Ogiri for what he is. This is a man who has failed to pay NDDC staff for months and has also failed to pay contractors for services rendered to the commission, while funds are reserved for use in rigging the 2015 elections for PDP,” Ikanya said.
He also appealed to Jega, “who means well for this country with all his innovative ideas designed to stop rigging in our electoral system, to closely monitor the activities of the Rivers REC before she rubbishes all that the electoral umpire has perfected to conduct a free and fair election in the country.”
He urged Jonathan and Wike to play the game according to the rules and stop overheating the polity by adopting untoward ploys through their desperation to ‘capture’ Rivers at all cost.
“PDP has pocketed the police in the state who are ready to do her bidding by arresting the APC leaders indiscriminately. To attempt to buy over the INEC simply demonstrates that Rivers State will be in total mess if Chief Wike succeeds in his bid to capture Rivers, instead of allowing the people of Rivers State to elect their governor and leaders in the March 28 and April 11 elections,” he said.