Buhari Wins Emohua LGA Rivers With 72k Votes, Takes Three More – Premium Times

The results from Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers
State, where President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress
(APC), had 72,745 votes, have been officially recorded, the state
collation officer, Aniefiok Essien, has indicated.

The results were accepted amidst controversy and despite protests by opposition party agents.

Mr
Essien gave a verdict that the results would be included in the final
spreadsheet just before the end of the collation exercise late Monday
night.

“We can’t create a separate table for that,” he said when
pressured to make a final pronouncement on the case by agents of
parties. “I’ll raise it with the INEC chairman. But the way the template
is, we can’t have a separate place to say this one is special.”

“So, it (Emohua) will be there,” he said.

Mr
Essien had previously said the Emohua results “will be looked into as a
special case” after both the Electoral Officer, EO, Kenneth Ita, and
the Collation Officer, CO, Pang Enubari, brought the results a third
time.

The agents of political parties led by Peoples Democratic
Party’s Austin Okpara strenuously protested because the EO had earlier
rejected the results and queried how the CO sourced them.

But
they later announced a reconciliation when called a second time. When
they came a third time, the EO even affirmed that the form containing
the results from wards brought by the CO as evidence of collation “is
INEC form”.

The two APC agents who made their way into the
collation hall when the Emohua brought the exercise under a chaotic
atmosphere, said agents of other parties protesting the Emohua results
were members of the PDP wearing tags of other parties.

That was
after the results came for collation a third time and the state
collation officer Mr Essien said they “will be looked into as a special
case”.

In the results presented, the APC scored 72,745 votes and the PDP came far behind with 7,148.

Apart
from Emohua LGA, Mr Buhari also won three other LGAs, including
Opobo/Nkoro (APC – 3,706; PDP – 3,573), Asari Toru (APC- 8,180; PDP –
3,175) and Obua Odua (APC – 42,496; PDP – 20,416) in Rivers State.

But
he is still coming behind Mr Atiku in the oil-rich state after results
from all the 18 LGAs, where the election process ended conclusively,
were collated Monday night.

Mr Abubakar of the PDP won in 14
LGAs. These included Oyigbo (APC – 3520; PDP – 16,102), Omuma (APC –
2494; PDP – 15322), ONELGA (APC – 10996; PDP – 28536), and Eleme (APC –
2412; PDP – 8464). PDP also won Gokana (APC – 9328; PDP – 10276) and
Etche (APC – 7163; PDP – 11135).

He also took Governor Nyesom
Wike’s Obio Akpor (APC – 6875; PDP – 69981) and party chairman Uche
Secondus’ Andoni (APC – 10766; PDP – 72330).

Then, he also had
Khana (APC – 5329; PDP – 89843), Ogu Bolo (APC – 2148; PDP – 8221), Tai
(APC – 2564; PDP -45049), Degema (APC – 7298; PDP – 14083), Port
Harcourt City (APC – 10742; PDP – 46851), and Ahoada East (APC – 4693;
PDP – 10612).

Rivers State has 23 LGAs but there were no results
collated for the presidential election from five of them: Bonny, Akuku
Toru, Okrika, Ikwerre and Ahoada West.

Elections did not hold in
Bonny and Akuku Toru LGAs due to violence. In Okrika, Ikwerre and Ahoada
West LGAs, the EOs, who did not come with their respective COs, said
there was nothing to show election held. They accused “PDP and APC”
supporters of shootings and the Nigerian Army of violent disruptions of
collation exercise.

The state collation officer, Mr Essien is expected to announce the final results after collation later today.

Source:- Premiumtimesng