Siminialayi Fubara, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), has won the Rivers state governorship election.
Akpofure Rim-Rukeh, the returning officer, announced the
result on Tuesday at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) head
office in Port Harcourt, the Rivers capital.
According to the returning officer, the PDP candidate
secured 302,614 votes to win the election.
Tonye Cole of the All Progressives Congress (APC), his
closest challenger, polled 95,274 votes.
Magnus Abe, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate, had
46,981 votes while Beatrice Itubo of the Labour Party (LP) got 22,224 votes.
There are 3,537,190 registered voters in the state while a
total of 496,852 voters were accredited for the governorship election.
The returning officer said 494,604 votes were cast while
483,934 were valid.
Declaring Fubara the winner, he said: “I, Professor Akpofura
Rim-Rukeh, vice-chancellor, Federal University of Petroleum Resources, hereby
declare the results of the 2023 governorship election held on the 18th of
March, 2023.
“That Fubara Siminialayi of the PDP having scored the
highest votes and having the certified percent spread with a satisfactory
margin of lead, having satisfied the requirement of the law is hereby declared
the winner and is returned elected.”
Following the declaration, party agents from the opposition
parties protested the result and demanded a cancellation of the election.
Fubara, the Rivers governor-elect, is the anointed candidate
of Nyesom Wike, the outgoing governor of the state.
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