By Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt
Mr. Siminalayi Fubara, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP is in a comfortable lead with the declaration of results from 17 of the 21 local governments of the state in the governorship election conducted on Saturday.
Fubara has won massively in all the 17 local governments declared before the announcement and collation of the result was suspended on Sunday.
Rescheduled elections were held today, Sunday March 19 for Asari-Toru and Degema local government areas because of the inability of INEC to carry out the exercise there due to logistic problems and protests by some party agents on Saturday.
Also, the Labour Party in Rivers State has formally rejected the outcome of the governorship and state house of assembly election conducted in the state, describing the exercise as a broad day robbery.
The governorship candidate of Labour Party in Rivers, Mrs. Beatrice Itubo said this while addressing journalists in Port Harcourt alongside other chieftains of the party.
She alleged that INEC and the security agencies connived to thwart the will of the people in the election.
Itubo said the party is compiling evidence of all the electoral infractions that took place during the conduct of the poll and would approach the court for redress as soon as possible.
According to her, a town crier went round in many communities in the state warning intending voters not to come out for exercise unless they would vote in certain direction.
In the same vein, the Caretaker committee chairman of the party, Mrs. Hilda Dokubo said the decision of the party to reject the result and approach the court was to ensure that the state is not ruled by illegality.
Some of the State Assembly candidates of the party, including Mr. Domgba Meshach from Eleme constituency, Mr. Oporo Eliot of Abual Odual constituency, and Mr. Chukwunonye Azuh of Oyigbo constituency claimed that though electoral materials were carted away by thugs, INEC has been declaring results.
The party also claimed some of the security officials deployed for the election were part of the electoral violence that took place during the.
See details of results of the election declared so far below
RIVERS STATE GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION RESULTS
1. TAI LGA
APC 295
ACCORD 35
LP 13
PDP 9,276
SDP 508
2. OPOBO-NKORO LGA
APC 1,426
ACCORD 16
LP 10
PDP 11,538
SDP 159
3. GOKANA LGA
APC 7,410
ACCORD 74
LP 97
PDP 17,455
SDP 13,840
4. OGU-BOLO LGA
APC 1,524
ACCORD 121
LP 34
PDP 7,103
SDP 310
5. ELEME LGA
APC 2662
ACCORD 67
LP 544
PDP 8,414
SDP 2,251
6. IKWERRE LGA
APC 7,503
ACCORD 138
LP 895
PDP 13,716
SDP 1,447
7. OYIBO LGA
APC 2,793
ACCORD 147
LP 2,688
PDP 9,886
SDP 796
8. ETCHE LGA
APC 6,408
ACCORD 288
LP 552
PDP 16,043
SDP 2,586
9. KHANA LGA
APC 620
ACCORD 120
LP 57
PDP 9,475
SDP 5,846
10. BONNY LGA
APC 3285
ACCORD 101
LP 1292
PDP 8,032
SDP 559
11. AHOADA EAST LGA
APC 2,650
ACCORD 155
LP 219
PDP 14,408
SDP 2,077
12. OMUMA LGA
APC 2,127
ACCORD 72
LP 52
PDP 8,760
SDP 804
13. OKRIKA LGA
APC 2,719
ACCORD 404
LP 231
PDP 10,342
SDP 822
14. ANDONI LGA
APC 3,149
ACCORD 260
LP 84
PDP 8,319
SDP 1,185
15. ABUA-ODUAL LGA
APC 5,738
ACCORD 150
LP 391
PDP 9,763
SDP 463
16. EMOUHA LGA
APC 5,916
ACCORD 179
LP 505
PDP 20,600
SDP 805
17. OGBA-EGBEMA-NDONI LGA
APC 6,811
ACCORD 1,358
LP 1,267
PDP 17,729
SDP 3,450.
More results later…
