Rivers: Governor Wike wins with 886, 264 votes
The stalemate over the governorship
election in Rivers State came to an end with yesterday’s declaration of the
incumbent governor, Nyesom Wike by the Independent National Electoral
Commissioner, INEC, as the winner of the exercise.
The declaration of Wike, who polled
886,264 votes to defeat his closest rival, Mr. Biokpomabo Awara of the African
Alliance Congress, AAC, who garnered 173,859 votes, provoked divergent
reactions from interested parties.
The Collation Officer in the state, Prof Teddy
Adias said the registered voters for areas where elections were cancelled due
to violence, including the entire Abua Odua and Gokana LGAs were
inconsequential to Wike’s winning margin of 712,405 votes. While declaring the
result, Prof Adias said: “Today marks the end of an era that commenced on March
9, 2019, when Rivers people were mobilised en-masse to elect their governor.
” We’ll study report—AAC While the
AAC agent, Nenye Kocha said his party would take a position on the outcome, the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, agent and former Speaker of House of
Representatives, Chief Austin Opara, urged Awara and his supporters to accept
the result and join in building the state. Wike Wike Kocha said:”We will study
the report and come up with a position. The decision of what to do next can’t
be mine to determine alone. The party will sit and take a position.” On his
part, Opara said: “This is a victory for Rivers people. The landslide victory
is a true reflection of the wishes of Rivers electorate. “All we are saying now
is that it is time Rivers moved away from violence during elections.
This is the time to build and we
urge the opposition to join Governor Wike to further move Rivers forward”
Jubilations in Port Harcourt Meanwhile, jubilation had erupted in some parts of
Port Harcourt as soon as the final results and declaration of Wike as
governor-elect filtered into town. Motorists and residents also heaved a sigh
of relief in expectation that the tension that had engulfed Port Harcourt and
the entire state would become outdated.
Earlier, the PDP had raised the
alarm that the All Progressives Congress, APC, was planning to disrupt the
collation exercise but that was not the case as the result was declared in an
atmosphere devoid of hitches.
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