Despite Non Participation APC Allege Fraud As PDP Wins Rivers LG Poll

CityNews Nigeria reports that despite withdrawing from the ballot, the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State was allotted votes in Saturday’s Local Government Elections conducted by the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission.

Meanwhile, the People Democratic Party won all chairmanship and councillorship seats across the 2 -local government areas of the state.

The RSIEC Chairman, Justice George Omerejji (retd.), declared the results at the commission’s office in Port Harcourt on Sunday evening.

In some of the results announced, Omerejji declared the PDP winner of the Ahoada East Chairmanship contest with 35,483 votes, even as it also won the 13 wards of the LGA for the councillorship polls.

However, the APC that did not take part in the election got 84 votes.

Also, Omereji declared Dr Chidi Lloyd of the PDP the winner of the Emohua chairmanship seat with 93,980 votes, as the commission also declared the PDP winner of the 14 councillorship seat in the LGA.

In Etche, the PDP won the Etche chairmanship seat with 27, 883 votes and cleared the 18 seats of the wards, even as the party won the Gokana LGA chairmanship seat with 54,578 votes.

The APC got two votes for the chairmanship election. The PDP clinched all the 17 councillorship seats.

In Bonny LGA, the PDP won the chairmanship seat with 18,408 votes and swept all the 12 wards councillorship seats.

The party also won Asari Toru chairmanship with 63,727 votes and won all the 13 councillorship seats.

Mr Rowland Sekibo of the PDP won Akuku-Toru with 54, 883 votes for chairmanship while APC got 1.