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Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State has on Sunday presided over the swearing-in ceremony for the newly elected chairpersons of the 23 local government councils in the state.
The inauguration was observed by Senator Bala Mohammed, the Governor of Bauchi State and Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum.
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The Rivers State local government election was held on Saturday across the state.
Results from the state Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC, said the Action Peoples Party won 22 out of the 23 local governments.
The Chief Election Officer of RSIEC, Justice Adolphus Enebeli, disclosed this on Saturday in Port Harcourt, the state capital.
While declaring the results, Enebeli said the announcement was suspended in Etche Local Government Area because the results collation was ongoing.
Enebeli clarified that the result of Etche LGA and the 319 councillorship positions would be announced upon the conclusion of the collation.
RSIEC later declared Uzordinma Nwafor of the Action Alliance winner of the poll in Etche Local Government Area.
The Action People’s Party (APP) had 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.
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.
