Rivers University VC Prof. Charles Adias cries out After Alleged Death Threat

The Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Otuoke, Bayelsa State, Prof. Charles Adias, has raised the alarm over threats to his life, Myschoolnews Reports.

The Collation Officer for the Presidential election in Rivers State and Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Otuoke, Bayelsa State, Prof. Charles Adias, has raised the alarm over threats to his life by supporters of the Labour Party.

Adias said since resuming his duty as a collation officer, he has received many threat messages accusing him of being deployed to manipulate Rivers poll.

Addressing the state agent of the Labour Party, Deinye Pepple, during the collation of results, in Port Harcourt, Adias explained that he was doing his job transparently.

Besides, he said his job had nothing to do with computation of results as he only received compiled results from field officers.

 Pepple faulted some results but lauded the collation officer for Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni LGA, for bringing what he described as the authentic results.

 “All the results he presented tallies with what I have from the polling units", he said.

But Adias said: “I have been receiving calls from supporters of your party. Even as I am here my phone is full of test messages of your party people threatening to kill me and do all sort of things.

“They are saying I am here to rig the elections. I advise that if you have issues, go to your polling units.”

Adias said he would discharge his national assignment professionally and called on some overzealous supporters to channel their grievances to the right authority.

He said: “As academics, our duty is to teach and serve society and that is exactly what we are doing and we will continue to do our job".

The Commissioner of Police in charge of elections in Rivers State, Adeoye Aderemi, warned politicians and party faithful to desist from inciting citizens in order not to cause a breakdown of law and order.

Aderemi condemned fake news on social media and advised members of the public to be wary of such messages.