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‎rivers LG Election: Manufactured Charade Designed To Test The Limits Of Rigging by jmoore(op): 3:40pm On Aug 31, 2025
‎The recently concluded Rivers State Local Government elections, which miraculously produced over 2 million votes, stand as one of the most brazen assaults on democracy in Nigeria’s history. This figure is not just suspicious, it is mathematically insulting to the intelligence of Rivers people.

‎For context, during the 2023 presidential elections, the entire state recorded only about 553,944 votes across all parties combined. Yet suddenly, for local government chairmanships and councillorships positions that usually attract low voter interest, the state is claiming more than quadruple that number? The arithmetic exposes the fraud: this was not an election, but a manufactured charade designed to test the limits of rigging.

‎This sham exercise cannot be divorced from the wider political agenda. It is an open secret that a powerful politician, desperate to deliver Rivers State to Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2027, is using these fabricated numbers to establish the infrastructure of electoral manipulation. What we just witnessed was a dress rehearsal for the highest-scale rigging in Nigeria’s political history, with Rivers State positioned as the epicenter.

‎Rivers people must recognize the danger. If a local election can be so recklessly inflated, imagine what is being plotted for the 2027 presidential polls. The will of the people is being targeted for capture, not through persuasion or performance, but through ballot theft and statistical fraud.

‎Rivers sons and daughters, whether at home or abroad must rise to the occasion. 2027 is not just another election; it is a battle for the political soul of Rivers State. Citizens must organize, defend the sanctity of the vote, and refuse to allow themselves to be used as pawns in a desperate quest for power.

‎What happened in the Rivers local government elections is not democracy. It is pre-rigging, a carefully choreographed attempt to normalize electoral robbery. If it goes unchallenged, 2027 will not be an election, it will be an auction of Rivers people’s future.

‎Rivers people: Protect your votes come 2027. Resist the capture. Defend your democracy.


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Re: ‎rivers LG Election: Manufactured Charade Designed To Test The Limits Of Rigging by helinues:
Anything not in their favour must have been manipulated.

Abia, Anambra both had LG election which one party swept everything, that one was credible.

But in Rivers where Apc won 20 and Pdp 3, that must have been heavily rigged

Una narrations no dey sell again
Re: ‎rivers LG Election: Manufactured Charade Designed To Test The Limits Of Rigging by Softmirror: 3:49pm On Aug 31, 2025
Hahaha hahaha hahaha 🤣🤣 🤣🤣🤣🤣. My own concern no pass Fubara. I hope he has learned not to dine with failures.

Re: ‎rivers LG Election: Manufactured Charade Designed To Test The Limits Of Rigging by Bobloco: 3:50pm On Aug 31, 2025
helinues:
Anything not in their favour must have been manipulated.

Abia, Anambra both had LG election which one party sweeped everything, that one was credible.

But in Rivers where Apc won 20 and Pdp 3, that must have been heavily rigged

Una narrations no dey sell again
helinus, your futile attempt to deflect from the real issue is textbook gaslighting. No one is disputing that other states have had questionable local elections, that’s part of the larger rot in the system. But let’s not pretend all manipulations are equal, or that silence in one place justifies fraud in another.

Here’s the real issue you conveniently ignored:
Over 2 million votes were allegedly cast in Rivers LG elections for chairmen and councillors when the state barely managed 550,000 votes during the presidential and governorship elections, the most hotly contested poll in Nigeria. That’s not just suspicious it’s mathematically insulting.

This isn’t about APC or PDP, it’s about the mockery being made of democratic processes in plain sight. If you're defending a result that defies arithmetic and logic simply because it favors your party, you're not supporting democracy; you're endorsing rigging, a trample upon democracy. Democracy is being buried

Nigeria won’t move forward if we keep excusing fraud based on where it happens or who benefits. Truth is truth, even when it’s inconvenient. Rivers people deserve better than to be reduced to voting statistics in someone’s 2027 blueprint for power.
Re: ‎rivers LG Election: Manufactured Charade Designed To Test The Limits Of Rigging by helinues: 3:51pm On Aug 31, 2025
Softmirror:
Hahaha hahaha hahaha 🤣🤣 🤣🤣🤣🤣. My own concern no pass Fubara. I hope he has learned not to dine with failures.
Once bitten, twice shy
So many times bitten, that one na infinite shy

grin cheesy
Re: ‎rivers LG Election: Manufactured Charade Designed To Test The Limits Of Rigging by helinues: 3:51pm On Aug 31, 2025
Bobloco:
helinus, your futile attempt to deflect from the real issue is textbook gaslighting. No one is disputing that other states have had questionable local elections, that’s part of the larger rot in the system. But let’s not pretend all manipulations are equal, or that silence in one place justifies fraud in another.

Here’s the real issue you conveniently ignored:
Over 2 million votes were allegedly cast in Rivers LG elections for chairmen and councillors when the state barely managed 550,000 votes during the presidential and governorship elections, the most hotly contested poll in Nigeria. That’s not just suspicious it’s mathematically insulting.

This isn’t about APC or PDP, it’s about the mockery being made of democratic processes in plain sight. If you're defending a result that defies arithmetic and logic simply because it favors your party, you're not supporting democracy; you're endorsing rigging, a trample upon democracy. Democracy is being buried

Nigeria won’t move forward if we keep excusing fraud based on where it happens or who benefits. Truth is truth, even when it’s inconvenient. Rivers people deserve better than to be reduced to voting statistics in someone’s 2027 blueprint for power.
Don't cry please. Today is Sunday, you should be relaxing and preparing for the new week
Re: ‎rivers LG Election: Manufactured Charade Designed To Test The Limits Of Rigging by Nobody: 3:52pm On Aug 31, 2025
Never in the history of the world has sore losers been concentrated in a part of Earth like Nigeria.

When they win, the election is peaceful and transparent, but when they lose, it is rigged.

Why His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) has been emphasizing on the need for the opposition to exhibit spirit of sportsmanship. They cannot be complaining every time they lose. It is not sustainable.
Re: ‎rivers LG Election: Manufactured Charade Designed To Test The Limits Of Rigging by Softmirror: 3:56pm On Aug 31, 2025
helinues:
Once bitten, twice shy
So many times bitten, that one na infinite shy

grin cheesy
They have been silent for a while. They will resume their noise making fully when Fubara is restored. 😁😁😁😁😁
Re: ‎rivers LG Election: Manufactured Charade Designed To Test The Limits Of Rigging by helinues: 3:59pm On Aug 31, 2025
Softmirror:
They have been silent for a while. They will resume their noise making fully when Fubara is restored. 😁😁😁😁😁
Where is that Ugochinyere, the way Fubara would tear race on the mentioning of the name lasan.. grin cheesy

Those people have records of sending others to political oblivion.
Re: ‎rivers LG Election: Manufactured Charade Designed To Test The Limits Of Rigging by onatisi(m): 4:00pm On Aug 31, 2025
It is not surprising . Wike needs to show and prove to Tinubu that he can deliver massive votes for him in 2027 ,hence the need to show huge figures.
Re: ‎rivers LG Election: Manufactured Charade Designed To Test The Limits Of Rigging by yarimo(m): 4:01pm On Aug 31, 2025
Lamentations of losers
Re: ‎rivers LG Election: Manufactured Charade Designed To Test The Limits Of Rigging by helinues: 4:01pm On Aug 31, 2025
onatisi:
It is not surprising . Wike needs to show and prove to Tinubu that he can deliver massive votes for him in 2027 ,hence the need to show huge figures.
Okay..so with the 20 Apc lG chairmen, how would the opposition win rivers state in 2027.. That's game over
Re: ‎rivers LG Election: Manufactured Charade Designed To Test The Limits Of Rigging by Softmirror: 4:01pm On Aug 31, 2025
helinues:
Where is that Ugochinyere, the way Fubara would tear race on the mentioning of the name lasan.. grin cheesy

Those people have records of sending others to political oblivion.
That one go don collect money clean mouth. 😁
Re: ‎rivers LG Election: Manufactured Charade Designed To Test The Limits Of Rigging by Bobloco: 4:06pm On Aug 31, 2025
helinues:
Don't cry please. Today is Sunday, you should be relaxing and preparing for the new week
Relaxing while 2 million fake votes are cooked up in a LGA election? That’s not peace, that’s complacency.

This isn’t about emotions; it’s about exposing fraud. If calling out blatant rigging sounds like “crying” to you, then you’re part of the problem.

Enjoy your Sunday though I doubt you truly are. Just remember: stolen ballots today become stolen mandates tomorrow.
Re: ‎rivers LG Election: Manufactured Charade Designed To Test The Limits Of Rigging by helinues: 4:08pm On Aug 31, 2025
Bobloco:
Relaxing while 2 million fake votes are cooked up in a LGA election? That’s not peace, that’s complacency.

This isn’t about emotions; it’s about exposing fraud. If calling out blatant rigging sounds like “crying” to you, then you’re part of the problem.

Enjoy your Sunday though I doubt you truly are. Just remember: stolen ballots today become stolen mandates tomorrow.
Oya fill the bucket below with your crying

Re: ‎rivers LG Election: Manufactured Charade Designed To Test The Limits Of Rigging by Bobloco: 4:26pm On Aug 31, 2025
helinues:
Oya fill the bucket below with your crying
You’re cheering like someone who is a direct beneficiary. You are suffering but don’t worry, reality will hit harder than my reply
Re: ‎rivers LG Election: Manufactured Charade Designed To Test The Limits Of Rigging by helinues: 4:27pm On Aug 31, 2025
Bobloco:
You’re cheering like someone who is a direct beneficiary. You are suffering but don’t worry, reality will hit harder than my reply
Guy, why do you like to be crying like this? Have you filled the attached bucket above with your crying, if yes, send the picture so that I can supply you with another buckets. I am in good mood today

Re: ‎rivers LG Election: Manufactured Charade Designed To Test The Limits Of Rigging by zero8zero(m): 5:07pm On Aug 31, 2025
jmoore:



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Bobloco:
Relaxing while 2 million fake votes are cooked up in a LGA election? That’s not peace, that’s complacency.

This isn’t about emotions; it’s about exposing fraud. If calling out blatant rigging sounds like “crying” to you, then you’re part of the problem.

Enjoy your Sunday though I doubt you truly are. Just remember: stolen ballots today become stolen mandates tomorrow.
onatisi:
It is not surprising . Wike needs to show and prove to Tinubu that he can deliver massive votes for him in 2027 ,hence the need to show huge figures.
Bitter Obi people from Abakaliki, why una dey wail ontop Rivers matter?. E shock you say people turned out to vote

Re: ‎rivers LG Election: Manufactured Charade Designed To Test The Limits Of Rigging by Ddeliverer007(m): 5:26pm On Aug 31, 2025
If APC rig, why can’t PDP rig instead of crying like foools?
Re: ‎rivers LG Election: Manufactured Charade Designed To Test The Limits Of Rigging by franugo(m): 5:50pm On Aug 31, 2025
helinues:
Anything not in their favour must have been manipulated.

Abia, Anambra both had LG election which one party sweeped everything, that one was credible.

But in Rivers where Apc won 20 and Pdp 3, that must have been heavily rigged

Una narrations no dey sell again
It's swept not sweeped. I think you're missing the main point, how can the total voters be up to 2m when presidential election that gets way more turnout is 500k? The truth is that wike is obviously plotting what he can give BAT in 2027 and using the LGA election as a testing phase. It's a ridiculous figure and if not contested, will easily be used by wike to give his preferred candidate over 4m in 2027.
Re: ‎rivers LG Election: Manufactured Charade Designed To Test The Limits Of Rigging by Skeyskey(f): 7:30pm On Aug 31, 2025
helinues:
Don't cry please. Today is Sunday, you should be relaxing and preparing for the new week
Have you prepared for the new week?
Re: ‎rivers LG Election: Manufactured Charade Designed To Test The Limits Of Rigging by helinues:
franugo:
It's swept not sweeped. I think you're missing the main point, how can the total voters be up to 2m when presidential election that gets way more turnout is 500k? The truth is that wike is obviously plotting what he can give BAT in 2027 and using the LGA election as a testing phase. It's a ridiculous figure and if not contested, will easily be used by wike to give his preferred candidate over 4m in 2027.
Thanks for the corrections boss

Rivers state, any election results, go and check the past results and see the pattern. If you didn't complain then, don't complain now
Re: ‎rivers LG Election: Manufactured Charade Designed To Test The Limits Of Rigging by franugo(m): 8:18pm On Aug 31, 2025
helinues:
Thanks for the corrections boss

Rivers state, any election results, go and check the past results and see the pattern. If you didn't complain then, don't complain now
I'm not really complaining, just pointing out the facts, I couldn't really care less what happens in the lg selections, we all know how our selections are, no be today e start. I've never voted and I probably never will till I go to a more sensible and actual democratic clime, but the way Wike is overdoing it will only make north overdo theirs too, pure madness is what I expect in 2027
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