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The Action People’s Party (APP) has won 22 chairmanship seats out of the 23 in the just-concluded local government elections in Rivers State on Saturday.
The Chief Election Officer of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC), Justice Adolphus Enebeli, declared the results on Saturday evening in Port Harcourt.
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He, however, said that the formal announcement of results for Etche local government area of the State was suspended because the collation of results was still ongoing.
According to him, the results for Etche LGA will be declared alongside that of the 319 councillorship seats at a later date.
The Eastern Updates also reports that APP was apparently backed in the election by the State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, following the crisis rocking the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the State occasioned by a battle of supremacy for the control of the party between Fubara and the immediate-past governor of the State, Nyesom Wike.
Rivers State governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, had earlier accused the Inspector General of Police and the entire Nigeria Police Force (NPF) of massaging the ego and serving the interest of an unnamed Abuja-based politician to scuttle the local government elections scheduled for October 5, 2024, in the State.
Fubara made the accusation on Friday while addressing a World Press conference at the Government House, Port Harcourt.
The governor had revealed that the already scheduled local government elections, barely hours away, cannot be stopped or truncated because a particular person does not want it conducted.
He said that everything that needed to be done about the electoral process legally, security wise and logistically, including the voters, have been finalised and voters sensitised because of their high confidence level.
