The recently conducted Local Government Elections in Rivers State have continued to raise a lot of controversies and reactions among Nigerians, groups and political parties.
The Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC, went on with the election despite widespread vehement opposition from notable Nigerians and stakeholders who believed it not only violates the Nigerian constitution but also makes a mockery of the country’s democracy.
Many Nigerians, especially those in the opposition and some analysts, believe the election was a plan to hand the state’s political structure to the APC and by extension President Bola Tinubu ahead of 2027.
Those holding this line of thought are irked that parts of the nation’s constitution were suspended to pave the way for the process, especially the mandatory notice as provided by the Electoral Act.
At the end of the controversial exercise, the commission announced that the All Progressives Congress, APC, which is supposed to be the main opposition in the state, won 20 local government areas in the exercise, while the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, secured only three.
