After a tip off by concerned citizen, Help-Mate Consult – a printing press located at 12 Isiokpo Street D-Line has been alleged to be printing fake result sheets to rig the forthcoming rerun elections in Rivers State.
Police on Saturday, November 5th 2016 uncovered an alleged plot by the agents of Rivers State APC to rig the forthcoming Rivers South-East Senatorial District as they busted the fake result sheets printing syndicate. Among items recovered by the police at the printing press include State-of-the-art Printing Machine, Computers, INEC Result Sheets Serial Number Booklets – which the printer used to authenticate the result sheets.
Director of Help-Mate Consult, Mr. Atonyesia Peterside, who is also alleged to be a prominent member of the APC from Opobo/Nkoro Local Government Area as well as three of his staff members: Richard Koko from Okrika, Nanee Godday from Khana and Tammy Garrick were also arrested along Rivers South-East APC candidate for the rerun elections – Mr. Magnus Abe whom observers believe was the Director’s cousin.
Atonyesia Peterside claimed that the printing contract was given to him by Mr Emma Chinda, an APC Leader and former Commissioner for Agriculture under former Governor Rotimi Amaechi (now the current Minister for Transport). Already, the printing press has already completed two sets for two local government areas before the police got wind of the illegal act.
