Port Harcourt election results - Nigeria's ruling party on Monday won back control of the key oil-producing state of Rivers, official results showed on Monday, after rigging claims by the main opposition.
Nyesom Wike, from President Goodluck Jonathan's Peoples Democratic
Party, won 1,029,102 votes, while Dakuku Peterside, of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), won 124,896, the electoral commission said.
The APC, which previously controlled the state, described the result as
"a rape of democracy" but the PDP said it was "a reflection of the
people's confidence" in them.
Rivers was a key battleground for both parties in the gubernatorial
elections held on Saturday, given the oil and gas sector that is largely
based in the southern delta region.
Tensions were high because outgoing governor Rotimi Amaechi had switched
sides from the PDP to the APC in 2013 and become a vocal critic of
Jonathan's government.
There were widespread claims from the APC of PDP irregularities in
voting in the state at the presidential election held two weeks ago,
leading to demonstrations and calls for a re-run.
Rivers voted nearly 95 percent in favour of Jonathan but the president
lost the election nationally to the APC's Muhammadu Buhari, who secured
the first opposition win in the country's history.
The state's information commission Ibim Semenitari said of the
gubernatorial result: "What happened on Saturday was a rape of
democracy. There was no election in Rivers.
"The PDP in connivance with INEC (Independent National Electoral
Commission) and the security agencies merely wrote figures which they
have churned out to the public," she told AFP.
She added: "We are going to challenge the results."
Local PDP spokesman Emmanuel Okha, however, said: "The people have spoken. We urge the APC to accept the results in good faith."
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