The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won all the three
senatorial seats in Rivers state.
The three senatorial seats are Rivers east, Rivers west, and
Rivers south-east.
The results of the national assembly elections were
announced by Geraldine Ekelemu, INEC spokesperson in Rivers, on Saturday.
According to the commission, Mpigi Barinada of the PDP won
the Rivers south-east senatorial district with 53,734 votes to defeat Ngofa
Nyimenuate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who polled 24,123 votes.
INEC announced that Banigo Harry of PDP won the Rivers west
senatorial district with 67,668 votes to beat Asita Asita of the APC who polled
32,572 votes.
The commission also announced that Onyesoh Allwell of PDP
clinched Rivers east senatorial seat with 134,283 votes to beat Benjamin
Okwuwolu of the Labour Party (LP) who scored 74,725 votes.
The electoral commission also announced the winners of the
12 house of representatives seats for Rivers.
The results for Okrika/Ogubuolo, Etche/Omuma, Ikwere/Emohua,
Ahoada West/Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni,
Akuku-Toru/Asari-Toru, Eleme/Tai/Oyibo, Abua-Uduah/Ahoada
East, Andoni-Opobo/Nkuru, Degema/Bonny, Obio/Akpor, and Port Harcourt 1 federal
constituency seats were announced.
The announcement of the result for Port Harcourt 2 federal
constituency was suspended.
The results showed that APC won only the Okrika/Ogubuolo
seat, while PDP won nine seats and LP won Port Harcourt 1 federal constituency.
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