This came after collated results from the two remaining local government areas, including Governor Nyesom Wike’s Obio/Akpor and Degema, were presented to the state Collation Officer, Prof Charles Adias, on Tuesday evening.
The APC won 14 LGAs, the Labour Party, five, while the PDP won four.
Prof Adias, who is also the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State, had received the collated results from 21 of the 23 LGAs of the state at the end of proceedings on Monday.
Receiving the collated results, Prof. Adias said, “We have received the collated results from all the 23 local government areas. I will now give summary of the results.
“From the final collated results, the APC polled 231,591, while the Labour Party scored 175,071 and the Peoples Democratic Party, 88,468 to come second and third respectively.
“The local governments won by the APC are: Obio, Akpor, Oyigbo, Eleme, Tai, Gokana, Khana, Ikwerre, Emuoha, Abua/Odual, Ahoada East, Akuku-Toru, Asari-Toru, Omuma, Opobo/Nkoro.
“On its part, the Labour Party won in Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni, Etche, Bonny, Port Harcourt City and Ahoada West, while the PDP won in Degema, Ogu/Bolo, Andoni and Okrika LGAs.”
Prof Adias, while giving the summary of the collated results said, “I am pleased to inform you that we have come to the end of this exercise in Rivers State. It is my honour that I present to you by announcing the results as collated.”
He said the total of registered voters stand at 3,315,005, while the number of accredited voters stood as 605,055.
The finals collated results are:
A–1875
AA–321
AAC–443
ADC–1823
ADP–953
APC–231591
APGA–1468
APM–579
APP–849
BP–451
LP–175071
NNPP–1322
NRM–888
PDP–88468
PRP–275
SDP–10514
YPP–797
ZLP–5963
Total valid votes–523651
Rejected votes–30293
Total votes cast–553944.
Prof Adias stated,” That is the result performance of parties and other vital statistics. In addition to this, we had cancellations in some number of RAs (registration areas) involving registered voters and PVCs collected.
“Total number of RAs affected due to cancellation and malfunctioning of the BVAS. 35 RAs were affected. We had 5,414 registered voters were affected.
“Total number of PVC’s collected in these affected units amounted to 51,763,” he added.
