Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communication, Dr Austin Tam-George, has asked officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to act within the law, and respect the free choices made by Rivers people in the recent re-run elections in the state.

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Dr Tam-George, in a statement in Port Harcourt, on Wednesday, particularly warned Mrs Amina Zakari, an official of INEC, and Mr Rotimi Amaechi, the Minister for Transport, to desist from subverting the electoral outcomes in Tai-Eleme federal constituency, Ikwere Local Government and other constituencies in Rivers State, whose results were still being withheld by INEC in collusion with the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State.

He condemned, “the desperation of the APC in wanting to impose its candidates on Rivers people, even when those candidates have been resoundingly defeated at the polls.”

Dr Tam-George urged Rivers people to continue to resist by any legal means necessary, the attempt being made by the APC and INEC to subvert democracy in Rivers State.

The Information Commissioner praised the governor of the state, Mr Nyesom Wike, for his inspirational and courageous leadership in saving Rivers State from the APC’s politics of plunder and extremism.