From Romanus Ugwu, Abuja

ANGERED by what it called a charade during the last legislative rerun elections in Rivers State, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned that it will not participate in the next election until there is a clear security report that all the small arms in the state have been mobbed up completely.

National Deputy Chairman of the party, Chief Segun Oni, who spoke on the pending inconclusive rerun legislative elections in the state at the party’s Abuja secretariat, insisted that security must be restored before any one could talk about conducting any election.

“My own personal view on the inconclusive election is that it must pend until the atmosphere is right and conducive. We will be making a mockery of democracy if we conduct elections that are more or less gang wars.

“People would hijack election materials at will, people would remember that they killed an innocent corps member, they killed soldiers and so on during the last one. Until there is an assurance that there is already a cleanup of small arms that are in the hands of people, the dangerous weapon all over Rivers State now, I will not, I will not personally recommend that we should participate in the election,” he noted.

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Similarly, recounting the ordeals the party is going through in the state, Rivers APC Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, said: “It is very pathetic what is happening in Rivers State now. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governor in the state seems to be running a country of his own. He does not obey any part of the constitution of the country.

“He gives his own rules, he has his own sets of laws and he does not bother about the constitution of Nigeria. I can give you instances; firstly, this is a man that has his own army, he is free to kill and then all he does is go to the media and give reasons he should kill.

“He has actually threatened that anybody who  wants to come and conduct election in Rivers State should write his will. We lost a corps member, some soldiers were killed, and an SS personnel was killed even in the midst of soldiers. From that time till today, everyday, an APC person would be killed.

“Few days ago, Dr. Vincent was killed in Kana, Bori and this is where Nyemsom Wike has blackmailed soldiers not to carryout their constitutional duty of taking these arms from criminals. We are aware also that bombs planted by hoodlums in that area brought down the office of our Senator Magnus Abe. So, it is difficult to say who would be the next person to be killed in Rivers State,” he lamented.