The Ijaw Youth Council Worldwide has said that the suspension of the conduct of governorship and state assembly election in Rivers state by the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) was predicated on a had a sinister motive.
The Council Worldwide also alleged Engineer Awara Biokpomabo, who is of Ijaw extraction and governorship candidate of the Africa Action Congress, (AAC) was the target of the truncated electoral process.
This was contained in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja and signed by its president, Eric Omare.
The statement read in part: ” The Ijaw Youth Council Worldwide has closely watched the activities surrounding the 2019 Rivers State Gubernatorial and House of Assembly Elections. The reports coming from our members, scattered around the state, only proves to us, that the Ijaw nation is under attack. Elections held in other parts of the country and those elections were relatively peaceful, with pockets of violence in a few locations.
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