Wike stated this on Monday during the commissioning of the Chokocho-Igbodo Road in the state’s Etche Local Government Area.

He said that members of the National Assembly are uninterested in safeguarding Nigerians’ interests and guaranteeing free and fair elections with electronic transmission of poll results.

According to the governor, President Buhari would refuse to sign the law, which would give legal legitimacy to the electronic transmission of election results.

He said that the President’s decision to withhold the bill assent was part of a plot by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to rig the general elections in 2023.

Wike stated that the APC members are afraid that if results are transmitted electronically, they will not survive the 2023 general elections.

He said: “Three weeks ago I told Nigerians that there is a conspiracy not to have a free, fair, transparent election in 2023 and that conspiracy was very clear. And I told Nigerians, Mr. President will not sign the Electoral Act amendment bill.

“What APC resolved in the meeting they had was that their problem is not necessarily direct primaries, but the electronic transmission of result in 2023. If they allow that, obviously APC will lose the election in 2023 and they told themselves that the only way we can survive that is to include the direct primaries in the bill so that Mr. President can use that as an excuse, that he will not sign the bill.

“Unfortunately, you don’t have a National Assembly that has what it takes, that will stand for the people, that will say look we were elected by the people and we want to give the people the best.

“Nobody in the National Assembly, not even the leadership can have what it takes to say Mr. President for the interest of Nigerians we are going to veto this your refusal.”