The
Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has constituted a panel of
detectives to investigate crisis associated with the recent Rivers rerun
elections.
A key aspect of the
investigation would be a forensic examination of an audio clip containing
threats allegedly made by Governor Nyesom Wike to kill electoral officials who
failed to do his bidding after receiving bribes.
In the audio, first
published by news website Sahara Reporters, Mr. Wike could be heard threatening
to kill the officials if they did not do his bidding or return his money.
“They should return
what they gave them or I will kill them,” the governor was heard telling a
supposed aide whom he asked to warn the unnamed INEC officials from deployed
from Plateau.
The governor’s office
said the audio was manipulated.
A statement Saturday by police spokesperson, Don Awunah,
said the police IG was responding to a statement credited to the chairman of
the Independent National Electoral Commission, Yakubu Mahmud, to the effect
that there were 70 incidents that tended to derail the election.
He said the IG “has set
up a team of detectives and experts to conduct a thorough investigation into
the incidents mentioned by the INEC chairman with a view to unravelling those
who directly or indirectly are responsible for such incidences and bring them
to justice”.
-Premium Times
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