Siminialayi Fubara, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, has won results for all nine Local Government Areas, LGAs, released on Saturday, March 18, 2023, in the ongoing collation of the governorship election results for Rivers state.
Tonye Cole, the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate, and Social Democratic Party, SDP, flag bearer, Sen Magnus Abe, trail neck to neck in the distant margin as the State Returning Officer, Prof Akpofure Rim-Rukeh who is Vice Chancellor, Federal University of Petroleum, Effurun, Delta state announced a break to reconvene at 4 pm.
The results from the LGA Returning Officers are coming amidst complaints from opposition parties’ agents who are calling for the cancellation of the exercise over claims of conflict between figures loaded on the IREV portal and those being delivered by the LGA Returning Officers at the collation center, among other irregularities.
Guber Results Collation In Rivers
- Tai LGA
Registered: 76613
Accredited: 10393
A: 34
APC: 295
LP: 13
PDP: 9276
SDP: 508
TVV – 10227
Rejected: 87
TVC: 10314
- Opobo Nkoro LGA
Registered: 59047
Accredited: 13376
A: 16
APC: 1426
LP: 10
PDP: 11538
SDP: 159
TVV – 13189
Rejected: 142
TVC: 13331
- Gokana LGA
Registered: 145566
Accredited: 40702
A: 74
APC: 7410
LP: 97
PDP: 17455
SDP: 13840
TVV: 39467
Rejected: 1235
TVC: 40702
- Ogu Bolo LGA
Registered: 61705
Accredited: 9295
A: 121
APC: 1524
LP: 34
PDP: 7103
SDP: 310
TVV: 9155
Rejected: 140
TVC: 9295
- Eleme LGA
Registered: 126111
Accredited: 14852
A: 67
APC: 2662
LP: 544
PDP: 8414
SDP: 2251
TVV: 14247
Rejected: 382
TVC: 14629
- Ikwerre LGA
Registered: 166079
Accredited: 24677
A: 138
APC: 7503
LP: 895
PDP: 13716
SDP: 1447
TVV: 24090
Rejected: 584
TVC: 24674
- Oyigbo LGA
Registered: 121815
Accredited: 16894
A: 147
APC: 2793
LP: 2688
PDP: 9886
SDP: 796
TVV: 16561
Rejected: 322
TVC: 16883
- Etche LGA
Registered: 130757
Accredited: 26933
A: 288
APC: 6408
LP: 552
PDP: 16043
SDP: 2586
TVV: 26320
Rejected: 591
TVC: 26911
- Khana LGA
Registered: 183626
Accredited: 16836
A: 120
APC: 620
LP: 57
PDP: 9475
SDP: 5846
TVV: 16435
Rejected: 401
TVC: 16836
‘Chase Out The Vampires’: Wike Declares Next Level Of Internal PDP War
Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers State, on Thursday, March 9, 2023, has declared that the internal war in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is not over yet, revealing that the next phase is about “chasing the vampires” out of the party.
Wike, a member of the G5, is the group of five aggrieved PDP governors who abstained from campaigning for Atiku because his candidacy allegedly violated the party’s constitution.
Wike made the disclosure while speaking at the commissioning of Igwuruta internal roads in the Ikwerre Local Government Area, LGA, of Rivers State on Wednesday, March 9, 2023.
The PDP’s presidential candidate, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar was announced as second place winner in a deeply flawed election in which Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was declared the winner by a “compromised” Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
On the fallout of the election, Wike assured PDP supporters the first phase of “the war” is over, adding that the second phase is about to begin.
“The second phase of the war: We must chase out the buccaneers and vampires. We are going to chase them out of the party and take our party and rebuild our party,” Wike said.
“These people left our party in 2014/2015. Our party lost. Again, they have come back, our party has lost again. They’ve destroyed our party.
“We’re going to chase them out of the party. They have no role to play for our party. I told them, agreement is agreement.”
In the build-up to the presidential election, the rift between the G5, a group of five aggrieved PDP governors, including Wike, and the party’s national leadership proved irreconcilable.
Unequivocal about the presidential seat returning to the South, the governor is widely believed to have spearheaded the APC’s rigged win in Rivers with the use of thugs, soldiers, and police to disrupt the elections and bribery and inducement of INEC officials to doctor the results in favour of Bola Tinubu of the APC.
Server observers and sources on the ground in Rivers say that Mr Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party won Rivers State by a landslide. Obi is in court to reclaim his mandate. “We won the February 25 election and we will prove it to Nigerians,” Obi told internal press at a briefing in Abuja on March 2, 2023.
Going further, Wike denied being involved in any anti-party activity, saying he fought for the “unity of the country” in the February 25 poll.
To him, the alleged anti-party actions belong to “them at the national level in PDP”.
Wike pondered what could be “more anti-party” than party members abandoning their constitution’s provisions that talk about the zoning of elective and appointive offices.
“[Between] you that refused to obey the constitution of your party because of impunity, because you think you have the number, you refused to obey the provisions of the constitution of your party, and we that say Nigeria must be one, Nigeria must be united, Nigeria must work for our people, [and] let everybody have hope, who committed anti-party [activities]? They are the ones who committed anti-party [misconduct],” he said.
On Monday, the former Vice President led a “black uniform” protest to the national headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja that also included the PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu; and Atiku’s running mate, Ifeanyi Okowa.
Following INEC’s declaration of Tinubu as the President-elect last Thursday, Atiku slammed the conduct of the elections, saying the umpire’s inability to upload results on the INEC Results Viewing Portal, IReV, is a “rape of democracy”.
Source: Vanguard
