Gov Wike in early lead as INEC resumes announcement of Rivers election results

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has recommenced the collation of March 9 results of the Rivers State governorship election.

INEC had following irregularities that marred the election in the oil rich state suspended collation, and announcement of the governorship poll results.

The commission had later announced that it will resume the process of completing the collation from, Tuesday (today) April 2.

National commissioner supervising Bayelsa, Edo and Rivers States, Mrs. May Agbamuche-Mbu, who announced the resumption of the governorship results collation promised that the process will be fair, credible and acceptable by all stakeholders.

“In view of that incident on the March 10 collation, the commission set up a five-man fact-finding committee to verify the nature and obstructive activities that generally attended the election at the collation centre.

“I wish to assure you of our commitment to free and credible process in completing this collation,” she said.

As at the time of filing this report, results of elections in some local government areas have been collated with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leading in them.

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They are:

Ikwerre LGA:

AAC 5,660

PDP 14,138

Port Harcourt LGA:

AAC 11,886

PDP 40,197

Andoni LGA

AAC 5,335

PDP 92,056

Opobo-Nkoro LGA

AAC 3,888

PDP  6,314

Bonny LGA

AAC/APC 3,046

PDP 10,551

Eleme Local Government:

PDP – 9,560

AAC- 2,748

Oyigbo Local Government:

AAC – 32, 026

PDP – 8,652

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