By Emmanuel Aziken
The All Progressives Congress, APC candidate barred in the 2019 governorship election in Rivers State, Mr. Tonye Cole has lamented the lack of confidence by the state’s political actors in the March 9 election and called for a fresh election supervised by heavy security.
Noting the controversies trailing the March 9 election and the acrimony between the two major parties involved, that is the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the African Action Congress, AAC, Cole said that there was no way that an acceptable victor could emerge from the contest.
Cole was, however, silent on his own involvement in a fresh election in the statement he issued entitled, “A plea for righteous intervention in Rivers State.”
While calling for a fresh election under heavy security, he said that would be the only way for the true voice of the people to resonate.
He said:
“If there is one thing that I am certain of, it is that the entire election of March 9th is…
