Mrs. Mary Efeturi, an official of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has cried out in a WhatsApp group that the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, is using the military personnel to hold her hostage, Igbere Tv reports.
According to Mary in her desperate message, Rotimi Amaechi wants her to instruct collation officers to collate results in the presidential election that held Saturday which she resisted, leading to her being held hostage by the minister, who has threatened not to release her until she carries out his wishes, which is to write results.
“Sir, I am still held within my office and the Minister of Transportation is insisting that I instruct the collation officers to collate results. He said that I cannot leave the office because he has military personnel on ground,” her SOS message on the WhatsApp group, which went to her superiors reads.
Series of effort by to reach her by phone proved abortive. As at the time of filing this report, it was unknown whether she stood her ground and resisted the minister’s pressure or yielded.
Igbere Tv newsmen were able to gathered that INEC officials at the commission’s Abuja head office were still making frantic efforts to secure her release.
“Sir, I am still held within my office and the Minister of Transportation is insisting that I instruct the collation officers to collate results. He said that I cannot leave the office because he has military personnel on ground,” her SOS message on the WhatsApp group, which went to her superiors reads.
Series of effort by to reach her by phone proved abortive. As at the time of filing this report, it was unknown whether she stood her ground and resisted the minister’s pressure or yielded.
Igbere Tv newsmen were able to gathered that INEC officials at the commission’s Abuja head office were still making frantic efforts to secure her release.
