February 28, (THEWILL) – Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has been declared winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in last Saturday’s presidential election in Kogi and Rivers States.
In Kogi, the INEC Returning Officer in the State, Professor Wahab Egbenwole, said Tinubu scored 240,751 votes to defeat his closest rival, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who got 145,104 votes.
The candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, came a distant third with 56,217 votes.
Prof. Egbenwole said out of 484,884 voters, who were accredited for the election in the state, 476,038 cast their votes, and 456,790 votes were recorded as valid votes while 19,248 votes were rejected in the process.
Tinubu won in 15 local governments including Mopa/Muro, Kogi, Kabba Bunu, Ijumu, Igala/ Mela and Yagba West, Olamaboro, Ofu, Yagba East, Dekina, Ankpa, Lokoja, Okene and Ajaokuta, while Atiku won in six local governments of the state: Ogori Magogo, Adavi, Bassa, Ibaji, Okehi and Omala.
Meanwhile, Tinubu has also emerged as the winner of Saturday’s presidential election in Rivers State.
THEWILL earlier reported that the Rivers Collation Officer for the presidential election, Prof Teddy Charles Adias, had on Tuesday morning, adjourned collation indefinitely over an alleged threat to his life and family.
Prof Adias, who is the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State, claimed that the death threats and calls he received are from members of the Labour Party (LP).
At the time, results from 21 Local Government Areas had been collated and they indicated Obi was in a slight lead, however, all that changed when the results for the final two LGAs came in.
Prior to the final collation, the APC candidate had polled 148,979 votes, while the LP candidate polled 169,414 votes.
But the final result saw Tinubu polling 231,593 votes while Obi got 175,555 votes.
Below is the full Rivers State Presidential Election Result.
1. AHOADA WEST LGA
APC 3443
LP 4634
PDP 2582
NNPP 11
2. TAI LGA
APC 9442
LP 485
PDP 1506
NNPP 18
3. OPOBO-NKORO LGA
APC 5701
LP 2093
PDP 1542
NNPP 06
4. ELEME LGA
APC 8,368
LP 7,529
PDP 2,391
NNPP 82
5. EMOUHA LGA
APC 9,145
LP 4,923
PDP 5,242
NNPP 18
6. GOKANA LGA
APC 10,122
LP 2,115
PDP 8,484
NNPP 31
7. OMUMA LGA
APC 6,328
LP 2,154
PDP 1,293
NNPP 13
8. BONNY LGA
APC 2,708
LP 10,488
PDP 2,406
NNPP 87
9. ABUA-ODUAL LGA
APC 5,653
LP 1,663
PDP 4,685
NNPP 09
10. OYIGBO LGA
APC 16,630
LP 10,784
PDP 1,046
NNPP 107
11. ASARI-TORU LGA
APC 14,483
LP 2,094
PDP 4,476
NNPP 09
12. ANDONI LGA
APC 3,306
LP 2,324
PDP 4,614
NNPP 18
13. OGBA/EGBEMA/NDONI LGA
APC 6057
LP 21,883
PDP 4,099
NNPP 109
14. AKUKU-TORU LGA
APC 3,182
LP 1,700
PDP 3,131
NNPP 14
15. IKWERRE LGA
APC 9,609
LP 8,752
PDP 4,869
NNPP 58
16. OKRIKA LGA
APC 2,729
LP 4,018
PDP 8,476
NNPP 34
17. OGU-BOLO LGA
APC 2,428
LP 1,209
PDP 3,187
NNPP 07
18. KHANA LGA
APC 7,649
LP 1,704
PDP 5,483
NNPP 47
19. ETCHE LGA
APC 8368
LP 11,232
PDP 5,919
NNPP 78
20. PORT HARCOURT CITY LGA
APC 5,562
LP 62,451
PDP 7,203
NNPP 301
21. AHOADA EAST LGA
APC 8,066
LP 5,379
PDP 2,358
NNPP 58
22. DEGEMA LGA
APC 2,375
LP 2,212
PDP 3108
NNPP 44
23. OBIO-AKPOR LGA
APC 80,239
LP 3,829
PDP 368
NNPP 161
