By Davies Iheamnachor

PORT HARCOURT—The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State has challenged the state Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Dame Gesila Khan, to publish all the documents used for the governorship and state House of Assembly elections in the state if they truly do exist.

The party chairman, Mr. Davies Ikanya, who addressed newsmen on the alleged connivance of the REC with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to scuttle the move of the APC to the election tribunal, accused the REC of releasing a contrived result to the people of the state.

Ikanya said that the insistence of the REC to make all the documents used for the election open meant that the documents were not ready as at the time the result was announced or worse still, there was no election in the state as the APC had earlier claimed.

It will be recalled that the REC had last Thursday, briefed newsmen at the state Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, office that she gave the documents used for the election to all the political parties that participated in the elections.

However, Ikanya who disagreed,  said that the REC had refused to release nine of the most important aspects of the needed documents for his party to move to the tribunal.

He alleged that there was no proper documentation for the elections that held in the state, adding that it was now that the INEC in the state was manufacturing the documents allegedly at the houses of some of the PDP stalwarts to present to the public.

He said:  “We are again calling on the general public to note the attitude of REC in Rivers State, Gesila Khan toward releasing all the documents used for the state election to us.

“The delay in the release of the documents shows that they were not ready as at the time the results of the elections were announced. We challenge the REC to make the documents of the governorship and state House of Assembly elections public if they truly exist.”