The recently concluded Gubernatorial and State Assembly elections in Akwa Ibom State has been adjudged “ peaceful, free, fair and credible” according to the Report on the 2019 Gubernatorial Election submitted to the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of the Department of Operations which our intrepid reporter was able to glean.
The
Report signed by then Commissioner of Police, Akwa Ibom Police Command,
Ibrahim S. Kaoje who also doubled as the Election Commissioner of
Police, Akwa Ibom State Command stated emphatically in the concluding
part of the 12 Page Report, without any equivocation that the
“Governorship and State House of Assembly Election held on 9th March,
2019 in Akwa Ibom State was relatively peaceful, free, fair and
credible.
The security agencies led by the Nigerian Police
provided conducive security environment for the peaceful conduct of this
election”.
This report is significant in many ways: CP Ibrahim
Kaoje was the arrow- head of the much vaunted Federal might the APC had
promised to unleash in the State. He was allegedly reported to have
been sent specifically to ensure the APC carried the state.
The
level of intimidation and arrest of key PDP Stakeholders in the state
was said to have alledgedly received his blessing. CP Kaoje, to lend
credence to the mission healledegdly was charged to execute, throughout
his stay in Akwa Ibom State did not pay a courtesy visit to the Governor
neither did he maintain any form of communications with the State’s
Chief Security Officer as the normal protocols demand.
He was
said to have allegedly held several open and nocturnal meetings with the
key opposition stakeholders on how to thwart the peoples’ will and
ensure victory for the APC. The people of Akwa Ibom State however,
refused to be intimidated; they went out and freely exercised their
civic responsibility, and they formed themselves into an electoral human
shield at the polls and defended their votes.
They voted
massively to return the PDP Candidate for Governor, Udom Emmanuel and
all the National Assembly and State Assembly Candidates. The election
was adjudged by the International Foreign Observers as well as the media
as the freest and fairest if not the most credible election of the
entire 2019 elections.
The Report by CP Kaoje has validated the
positions of the International Observers and the Nigerian and
international press and has rendered bare and without foundation the
claims by the APC that the result was marred by violence and
irregularities.
It has again revealed the lies they have been
weaving lately that the state has security issues and therefore, the
venue of the Election Tribunal should be moved from Uyo to Abuja. Akwa
Ibom State is safe and peaceful and the people have spoken, the election
of March 9th,2019 was free, fair and credible and was held under
peaceful atmosphere.
This is the conclusion of the very man who
was allegedly the arrow- head of the plot to forcefully take over the
state for the APC. As the Campaign Slogan of the Divine Mandate, 2019
Gubernatorial Election proclaimed loudly: ONLY GOD!
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