Court Affidavit Reveals How Bayelsa REC Collected N200m Bribe From Seriake Dickson

A Supervisory Presiding Officer (SPO) with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mr Francis Asmakia Ted, has accused the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Bayelsa State, Mr Baritor Kpagih, of collecting a two hundred million naira (N200, 000,000) bribe from the state governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson.

In an Affidavit of Facts deposed to at the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, to support a petition to the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, Ted alleged that Dickson offered Kpagih one billion naira (N1, 000, 000, 000) bribe to illegally tilt the December 5 polls in Bayelsa State in favour of the governor, stressing that the N200 million cash bribe was the initial payment.

According to the SPO, the heavy financial inducement was behind the fact that “even though Ekeremor, Nembe, Ogbia local government areas of Bayelsa State were marred with serious violence and irregularities,” Kpagih “overlooked all those and rather targeted Southern Ijaw Local Government Area and unilaterally declared the results inconclusive all in a bid to justify the huge sum of money he collected from Governor Seriake Dickson to ensure that he emerges victorious in the polls.”

 In the petition to the INEC chair dated December 22, 2015, Ted pointed out that in a recent newspaper publication, “Kpaigh himself confessed in an interview that he was offered money to rig the election in favour of a particular candidate. “I wish to state that the candidate in question is Hon. Seriake Dickson, the incumbent governor of Bayelsa State. Contrary to The Guardian publication, Kpaigh collected money from Governor Dickson.”

 Ted in the affidavit affirmed that he served as SPO in the Bayelsa Gubernatorial Election and that he had been a close friend of Kpagih, who personally recruited and appointed him for the INEC job “with a firm and specific instruction to report directly to him with a mandate to gather all relevant information and raise intelligence reports across the state to assist him in his duties, which I carried our diligently.

“I got close to Mr. Baritor Kpagih, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Bayelsa State, and sequel to the close interaction and personal relationship that ensued between us; I am very conversant with the facts deposed herein.”

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