Rivers Re-run Election: Don't Allow Anybody To Intimidate You- Perterside Tells Electorate

The Director-General, Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Peterside Dakuku has called on electorates in Rivers State to ensure that they are part of the Saturday’s parliamentary re-run polls in the state.


Peterside also asked the people not to be intimidated by any individual or group from voting in the elections.Peterside told newsmen in Port Harcourt on Friday that the era of intimidating the people to manipulate the electoral system was gone.

“The Federal Government has assured of adequate security during the re-run elections on Saturday.

Nobody should feel intimidated and I urge the people to go out and vote for their candidates.“There is nothing to fear because security agencies are there to protect you,” he said.

The governorship flagbearer on the platform of the All Progressives Candidate (APC) in the 2015 general elections, said that people were still scared of the experience of the election.

“Our people were intimidated and scared to come out to vote last year; that fear is still there, but we urge them that there is nothing to fear.