Rivers rerun: Police arrest Amaechi’s ‎ally for printing fake INEC result sheets

Plot by the agents of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State to rig the forthcoming Rivers South-East Senatorial District election has been uncovered as the Police on Saturday bust a fake result sheets printing syndicate in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
The printing press, Help-Mate Consult, located at 12, Isiokpo Street, D-Line, Port Harcourt, was printing fake result sheets for seven local government areas of Rivers South-East when the police stormed the facility based on a tip off by a concerned Nigerian.
Senator Magnus Abe is the Rivers South-East APC candidate for the rerun election.
The Director of Help-Mate Consult, Atonye Peters, a prominent member of the APC from Opobo/Nkoro Local Government Area, claimed that the printing contract was given to him by Emma Chinda, an APC Leader and former Commissioner for Agriculture under former Governor Rotimi Amaechi, who is now the Minister of Transport.
According to Peters, the printing press has already completed two sets for two local government areas before the police got wind of the illegal act.
He was arrested alongside three of his staff – Richard Koko from Okrika, Nanee Godday from Khana and Tammy Garrick.
Items recovered by the police at the printing press included State-of-the-art printing machine and computers.
The police also recovered Result Sheets of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Serial Number Booklets, which the printer used to authenticate the result sheets.
In an interview, the Rivers State Chairman ofthe Inter-Party Advisory Council, Bro Felix Obuah, said the arrest of the fake printers of rerun election result sheets has vindicated the body on the plan by INEC and APC to rig the forthcoming poll.
The Rivers State IPAC Secretary and Chairman of Accord Party, Sir Precious Baridoo, also condemned the plot to use fake result sheets to rig the rerun elections.
Baridoo said the APC and INEC would be resisted.
Hon. Uchechukwu Ichenwo urged the Police to prosecute all INEC and Rivers State APC officials involved in the printing of the fake rerun elections result sheets.
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