The immediate past governor of Rivers State, who doubles as the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, seems to have coasted to victory as the All Progressives Congress (APC) won 20 of the 23 local government areas in Saturday’s Chairmanship and Councillorship elections.
The suspended ruling party in the state, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on the other hand, won only three LGAs in the poll conducted by the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission.
Governor Siminalayi Fubara, who boycotted the elections, lost his Opobo-Nkoro LGA to the APC.
RSIEC Chairman, Dr Michael Odey, announced the results at the commission’s Headquarters along Aba Road in Port Harcourt on Sunday afternoon.
Wike, who is a PDP member, but works for the APC government, is rumored to have a hand in the recorded victories of both the APC and PDP candidates.
