{"id":103716,"date":"2023-03-18T19:02:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T18:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=103716"},"modified":"2023-03-18T19:02:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T18:02:50","slug":"amaechi-laments-total-failure-of-governance-in-nigeria-says-inec-is-complete-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/amaechi-laments-total-failure-of-governance-in-nigeria-says-inec-is-complete-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Amaechi laments \u2018total failure of governance in Nigeria,\u2019 says INEC is complete disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former Minister of Transportation and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Rivers State, has said his political party did not contest against the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and the police.<\/p>\n<p>The former Rivers State Governor, who voted midday, decried what he called a total failure of governance in Nigeria.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAmaechi after voting in his hometown, Ubima Ward 8 Unit 14 said, \u201cThere is a total failure of governance in the country. Complete failure. Police are helping PDP to arrest APC members, arrest SDP members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGongs are being beaten about in the whole communities asking people who will not vote PDP not to come out or they would be beaten. People are being beaten, the governor (Wike) has declared people wanted and nobody has spoken.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe governor has no right to declare anybody wanted. The IG (Inspector General of Police) is doing nothing, nobody is doing anything. Complete failure. There is voter apathy in Rivers. Nobody wants to come out because people are scared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cINEC is complete failure. There are those of us who opposed the reappointment of Yakubu Mahmood. The person who nominated him is a member of Tinubu\u2019s camp. So what are you expecting?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere in Rivers State, Mahmood worked under Wike as Executive Secretary of TETFund, so what you are having in Rivers is that APC and other parties are contesting, not against PDP, but against INEC, against Police\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nMeanwhile, Governor Nyesom Wike who was accredited at his Obio Akpor Ward 9 Unit 7 and voted 11:16 am said, \u201cI can say they (INEC) have done very well unlike what we had on February 25. They have improved more than what we had in February.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the conspicuous voter apathy, the governor said, \u201cWhen the first election came and went, if people didn\u2019t get what they want, they\u2019re discouraged. 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