The governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, in Rivers State, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has raised the alarm over what he described as the continued killing of members of the party in the state.
Peterside, speaking through the Director of Communications of his campaign organization, Mrs. Ibim Seminitari, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Monday, demanded an immediate end to the killings and warned about the consequences of the killings if not stopped.
Questioning the motive behind the post-election killings, Peterside called on the security agencies to be proactive to stopping the perpetrators of such killing from carrying out their evil activities.
He asked: “If they killed APC members on election days, why have they continued to kill after the polls?”
Peterside, who cited new cases of killing to include that of Ahoada East, Okrika and other local government areas in the state where APC members have either been killed or abducted, said the killings raise concerns over the calibre of men and women INEC had declared winners of the elections in the estate.
“The unabated killings of APC members in Rivers State raise concerns of the mental status of the men and women the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared winners of the recent elections in the state. We are afraid that killers and sundry criminals have been imposed on the state by INEC, and, if we are right, then, worse days lay ahead for our people,” he said.
