28th February, 2023
By Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of APC won in Rivers State in the presidential election conducted across Nigeria on 25 February.
According to results of the election for Rivers announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Tinubu scored 231,591 votes to beat the candidate of Labour Party who came second in the election in the state.
Obi scored 175,071, while Atiku Abubakar, the president candidate of Wike’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar came third with 88,468 votes.
However, an analysis of the result showed that Tinubu garnered a substantial number of his votes from Obio-Akpor Local Government, the council where Governor Wike hails from.
Wike was also a former chairman of the local government.
According to the result, Tinubu got 80,239 votes -over a third of the of the votes he got from the election from Obio-Akpor Local Government, according to result announced by Professor Charles Teddy Adias, the Collation Officer for Rivers.
On the contrary, Atiku, the presidential candidate of PDP scored paltry 368 votes in the local government.
Analysts said the development confirmed speculations that Governor Wike supported Tinubu in the election.
See details of the result from the local government below.
strong>Obio-Akpor LGA Presidential results.
684812 registered voters
137497 accredited voters
Accord 498
AA – 44
AAC 51
ADC 183
ADP 157
APC 80239
APGA 126
APM 117
APP 87
BOOT 111
LP 3829
NNPP 161
NRM 57
PDP 368
PRP 21
SDP 303
YPP 115
ZLP 396
TVV 86863
REJECTED 4288
TVC 91151
NO Reault for ward 11 Rumueme with 27 polling units
With 14196 registered
Degema LG Presidential results
92057 registered voters
8478 accredited voters
Accord 25
AA 3
AAC 10
ADC 69
ADP 12
APC 2375
APGA 17
APM 5
APP 15
BOOT 4
LP 2212
NNPP 44
NRM 28
PDP 3108
PRP 2
SDP 62
YPP 11
ZLP 29
TVV 8031
REJECTED VOTES 370
TVC 8401