Tinubu wins Rivers State with 231,591 votes

After receiving a total of 231,591 votes from the state’s 23 local government areas, the All Progressives Congress won the February 25 presidential election in Rivers State.

This happened after the state’s collated results from the final two local government areas—including Governor Nyesom Wike’s Obio/Akpor and Degema—were delivered to Prof. Charles Adias on Tuesday night.
The APC won 14 LGAs, the Labour Party, five, while the PDP won four.

Prof Adias, who is also the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State, had received the collated results from 21 of the 23 LGAs of the state at the end of proceedings on Monday.

Receiving the collated results, Prof. Adias said, “We have received the collated results from all the 23 local government areas. I will now give summary of the results.

“From the final collated results, the APC polled 231,591, while the Labour Party scored 175,071 and the Peoples Democratic Party, 88,468 to come second and third respectively.

“The local governments won by the APC are: Obio, Akpor, Oyigbo, Eleme, Tai, Gokana, Khana, Ikwerre, Emuoha, Abua/Odual, Ahoada East, Akuku-Toru, Asari-Toru, Omuma, Opobo/Nkoro.

“On its part, the Labour Party won in Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni, Etche, Bonny, Port Harcourt City and Ahoada West, while the PDP won in Degema, Ogu/Bolo, Andoni and Okrika LGAs.”

Prof Adias, while giving the summary of the collated results said, “I am pleased to inform you that we have come to the end of this exercise in Rivers State. It is my honour that I present to you by announcing the results as collated.”

He said the total of registered voters stand at 3,315,005, while the number of accredited voters stood as 605,055.

The finals collated results are:

A–1875

AA–321

AAC–443

ADC–1823

ADP–953

APC–231591

APGA–1468
APM–579

APP–849

BP–451

LP–175071

NNPP–1322

NRM–888

PDP–88468

PRP–275

SDP–10514

YPP–797
ZLP–5963

Total valid votes–523651

Rejected votes–30293

Total votes cast–553944.

Prof Adias stated,” That is the result performance of parties and other vital statistics. In addition to this, we had cancellations in some number of RAs (registration areas) involving registered voters and PVCs collected.

“Total number of RAs affected due to cancellation and malfunctioning of the BVAS. 35 RAs were affected. We had 5,414 registered voters were affected.

“Total number of PVC’s collected in these affected units amounted to 51,763,” he added.