The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has defeated his rivals in the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar.
The total results announced by the state Collation Officer and Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Teddy Charles Adias, on Tuesday showed that Tinubu polled 231,591 votes to defeat his closest rival Obi, who scored 175,071 while Atiku trailed with 88,468.
The results, which were announced at the INEC Presidential Election Collation Centre in Rivers, also showed that the Social Democratic Party (SDP) scored 10,514 votes.
Adias said out of the 3,315,005 registered voters, 605,055 were accredited for the election while valid votes stood 523,651.
It was the first time since 1999 that another political party other than the PDP would win Rivers.
The councils won by Tinubu are Asari-Toru, Oyigbo, Abua Odua, Omuma, Gokana, Emohua, Eleme, Tai, Opobo Nkoro, Ikwerre, Akuku-Toru , Khana, Ahoada East and Obio-Akpor.
Obi won in Bonny, Ahoada West, Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni, Port Harcourt City and Etche while Atiku clinched Ogu-Bolu, Okirika, Andoni and Degema.
Tinubu lost his lead of Rivers once to Obi when the result of the Port Harcourt City was collated as the Labour Party candidate won the council with a wide margin.
Obi polled 62,451 votes to win the council leaving Atiku with 7,303 and Tinubu with 5,562.
But Tinubu regained the State following the results of Obio-Akpor, the Local Government Area of the state Governor, Nyesom Wike.
In Obio-Akpor, Tinubu polled 80,239 votes to defeat Obi, who came a distant second with 3,829 and Tinubu, who got 368 votes.
The results according to their local government areas are:
Asari-Toru
APC 14,483
LP 2094
PDP 4476
Oyigbo
APC 16,630
LP 10784
PDP 1046
Abua-Odua
APC 5653
LP 1663
PDP 4685
Bonny
APC 2708
LP 10488
PDP 2406
Omuma
APC 6328
LP 2154
PDP 1293
Gokana
APC 10,122
LP 2215
PDP 8484
Emohua
APC 9145
LP 4239
PDP 5242
Eleme
APC 8368
LP 7529
PDP 2391
Tai
APC 9442
LP 1506
PDP 486
Opobo-Nkoro
APC 5701
LP 2093
APC 1542
Ahoada West
APC 3443
LP 4634
PDP 2582
Andoni
APC 3,306
LP 2,334
PDP 4,614
Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni
APC 6057
LP 21,883
PDP 4099
Akuku-Toru
APC 3,182
LP 1,700
PDP 3,132
Ikwerre
APC 9609
LP 8752
PDP 4869
Okirika
APC 2729
LP 4018
PDP 8476
Ogu-Bolu
APC 2,428
LP 1209
PDP 3187
Etche
APC 8,366
LP 11,232
PDP 5,919
Khana
APC 7649
LP 1764
PDP 5483
Port Harcourt
APC 5,562
LP 62,451
PDP 7,303
Ahoada-East
APC 8066
LP 5,379
PDP 2358
Degema
APC 2,375
LP 2,212
PDP 3108
Obio-Akpor
APC 80,239
LP 3829
PDP 368
