We cant call this an election

So attached are official results of the Rivers State Elections…

This cannot be an election, no way. not with voters killed, shootouts, Minister and Governors storming a police station over an INEC staff…

No way…

In a functional state, the President will immediately invite the Governor and his Minister to a closed door meeting, and stress that the lives of Nigerians and the democratic process is far superior to electoral victories….but alas…the waters have been poisoned…

Rivers State and all the states that have this massive 13% derivation are a prize sought by all…that sadly is why there is violence during elections…All this violence is the “securing of a piggy bank” for 2019…its is just sickening.

A smart move will be to reform the electoral process, and to put laws that specify how the  13% derivation fund is actually spent, in all reduce the massive powers a Governor possess to receive and spend billions of Naira..until that is done, move the entire Nigerian Army to Rivers, this nonsense wont stop, the money stakes are too high.

Let me end this by speaking directly to the South South  voters, there was a time under PDP when Lagos State with serious infrastructure decay got her citizen Ogunlewe appointed as a Minister of Works by President Obasanjo.

Clearly this was an opportunity for Lagos State  to direct Federal funds to build the 4th Mainland Bridge, fix the overhead bridges in Lagos, even restart the Lagos Metroline…..but No….the Minister of Works wasted his time destroying Governor Bola Tinubu road work on “federal” roads in Lagos…the Minister and the Governor both from Lagos State fought and fought, the Minister was later removed, and today there is still no 4th Mainland bridge or Metroline in Lagos.

Ndi Rivers, today you have a Minister of Transport, You have NDDC Chairman, you have NIMISA, this should then mean the East West road should be complete, the River Monorail should be done and docks and erosion control built and strengthened….but like Lagos State wasted their opportunity because of politics, you are wasting yours because of politics as well.

One year has gone….there is no excuse for Rotimi Ameachi, Dakuku Peterside, Nyesom Wike and Ibim Semitari not to construct a rail line from Lagos to Rivers State…..none, they have the yam they have the knife…may God give them the wisdom….

Its Rivers problem, they can fix it…..

ps

Cross River State a PDP, in the same South South has quietly “befriended” Buhari to approve their infrastructure project…..while Rivers folks play in the mud.

INEC Releases 10 Results, Suspends Rivers Elections March 21, 2016 36 30388 • PDP wins eight state constituencies, one House seat, APC victorious in one…