Prof. Charles Adias, the Independent National Electoral Commission’s designated collation officer for the presidential election in Nigeria’s Rivers State, has put the process on hold due to alleged threats to his life.
At the start of collation at the INEC headquarters in Port Harcourt on Tuesday morning, Prof. Adias, who is also the vice chancellor of the Federal University in Bayelsa State, revealed that the threats were from members of a specific political party.
He stated, “I have been receiving threats, messages and calls to my life and that of my family for two days now. My picture is all over the social media that I was sent to rig the elections in Rivers State.
“Every hour, I receive more than one million calls of threats to my life and other things. I hereby stand down collation until the INEC and security agencies can guarantee my safety to continue this national assignment.”
Source: The Independent Ghana