Ahead of the May 29 inauguration, a list of President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s cabinet members has leaked to the media and generated heated arguments in many quarters .
According to a reliable source, “barring any last minute change; Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau seems to have gotten the nod to be the next National Security Advised and Nuhu Ribadu, minister of justice.”
While Tinubu’s cabinet members list appears to be wearing shape, it is gathered that the President-elect has reserved strategic offices like that of the Attorney General of the Federation for his preferred candidate. According to our source, the preferred candidate to occupy the office of the Attorney General is likely someone from the South-West region.
“Nuhu Ribadu is mostly recommended for the ministry of Justice administratively since his background in law and anti-corruption stance seem fitting,” the source also noted.
Furthermore, Hadiza Bala Usman is the likeliest candidate for the position of the FCT Minister, barring any last-minute change and lobbying.
Hadiza Bala Usman is a Nigerian politician who served as the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports from 2016 to 2021. She was previously the chief of staff to the Governor of Kaduna State from 2015 to 2016.
Tinubu, according to our sources, considers this profile fitting for the task ahead in Abuja.
The source also said: “There’s no disputing the fact that most of Tinubu’s political associates in the South-West have their eyes on the cabinet, but I will tell you that it is going to be a tough one to predict those who will make it, given their respective pedigrees.”
Making a case for Babatunde Fashola who has been reported to be the favourite for the Chief of Staff position as against initial choice of Femi Gbajabiamila, the source said, “How can one dismiss Fashola, who not only served as Chief of Staff to Tinubu, but later succeeded him as governor of Lagos State, or Wale Edun and Dele Alake, who served as commissioners under Tinubu?
A Nigerian lady has revealed how she ended up as a train driver after studying mass communication in school.
The beautiful lady shared photos of herself driving a train and many netizens were intrigued by her story .
Reacting to the photos, some people also pleaded with her to guide them on how she became a train driver
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The young lady, Somaga Tonia, recently graduated from school with a degree in mass communication. However, shortly after graduating, she drifted away from her course of study and learnt how to drive trains. “I have never entered a train before not to talk of driving one.
Joint Action Group (JAG) on Power, Aba, Abia, has alleged Aba Power Limited’s (APL) also known as Geometric a deliberate plan to continue depriving customers of power supply while forcing them to pay highly inflated estimated bills.
The Secretary of JAG, a body that represents many residents and business stakeholders, Chief Ike Opigwe disclosed this during a Press Conference with members of the Aba Federated Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists. AbaCityBlog reports that when the complaints from residents got out of hand, Aba NUJ contacted Opigwe who revealed that information from Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET) Plc showed that APL is under-buying and under-supplying power to increase their profit. Residents are saying that APL hardly supply power to their homes and when they want to do, they will supply in a few hours during the midnights, but will never hesitate to bring bogus estimated bills that are only suitable for factories. Explaining, Opigwe said the current epileptic power supply in Aba is deliberate, as APL has no tangible reasons for the epileptic supply except their internal company decision to deal with the people as they wished. “There’s an epileptic power supply in Aba right now and cast your mind back to December 2022, you will recall that there was a serious supply of energy everywhere. “From the middle of January, we started having all these load-shedding. Now, what really happened? Electricity sector has four segments and value chains. “We have Generation Company of Nigeria (GenCos) that generate the electricity we use; We have the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) and also the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET) Plc. “NBET is the manager and administrator of the electricity pool (‘The Pool’) in the Nigerian electricity supply industry (NESI). “NBET use taxpayers’ money, buy energy and sometimes give it to these DisCos on credit for them to interface with you and collect the money based on the NERC regulations. We equally have the Distribution Companies (DisCos) which are currently 12 in number today. “You as a Nigerian and a customer has 40% equity in the distribution aspect because government use taxpayers’ money to buy shares in NBET. “That’s why electricity is called Social Commodity. It’s not the DisCos property entirely. “Records show that APL has more than 100kwh available for them to buy and share for Aba customers but they deliberately decided to give epileptic supply, to pay less to the NBET and get higher money through estimated billing.”, he said. Adding his voice, Mr Imo Ojukwu, a member of JAG said they interfaced with APL management on the reduced 100MWto 25MW supply to Aba, but they said they had no money to buy energy and that Aba people were owing them billions of Naira. Opigwe further said “By December 2022, APLE/Geometric based on the record from the market operators released 100MW of electricity to Aba customers. “That was why Aba enjoyed electricity between December 2022 and early January 2023. But by the middle of January, they said no, they now released only 25MW to the entire Aba. “This is the reason why we now have the epileptic supply you’re all seeing today. This is happening because Aba people do not know what’s happening. “This is why many people are complaining that they now give them light only at midnight when they’re asleep. “They believe nobody knows about it and they can do whatever they want and still collect higher money than they got when they released 100kwhs to customers through their attack dogs they call marketers. “I told APL management when we engaged them that we know and have the available records of what happened between December 2022 and today. “Records show that they have more than 100MW available for them to buy and share for Aba customers but they deliberately decided to give epileptic supply, to pay less to the NBET and get higher money through estimated billing.”
Also adding his voice to the epileptic supply of electricity, Imo Ojukwu, a member of JAG said that they have interfaced with APL management of the reason they reduced 100MW to 25MW supply to Aba, but the management told them that they had no money to buy energy. That Aba people are owing them a whole lot of Money. Opigwe further explained that the four days shutdown APL did in Aba is a crime against the customers because it is completely an act of wrongful disconnection which the company can be made to face the law. He said the regulation made it clear under Customers’ Rights and Obligation that meters (prepaid) must be first installed before an account will be opened. Opigwe stressed that it is the duty of the DisCos to distribute prepaid meters to their customers because the meters are their properties not that of the customers. “They will just send their Marketers into Aba streets to go and extort people. The regulation is clear and they must follow it here in Aba.” Opigwe further explained that there are two ways of getting prepaid meters. “When the DisCos said they don’t have money to meter people some time ago, the Federal Government said okay and did what was called the National Mass Metering Programme. “They released one million prepaid meters to these DisCos and made it clear that releasing that doesn’t take away the duties of the DisCos because they were only helping. “They were asked to share the prepaid meters but reports from Newspapers proved that these DisCos didn’t issue the meter as they were told. “Many collected money from the electricity consumers for the meters. That programme has finished and NERC has been telling APL to meter people yet they are adamant. “Management of APL told us all that they will give us prepaid meters and up till now nothing has been done.
“NERC made it clear that customers with faulty meters should not get estimate bills and the DisCos will lie to customers with such problems that their meters are out of their systems which system are they talking about. These things are done because customers don’t know the rules.” Aba residents who spoke to Exact News have said that what the DisCo, including the former EEDC and now APL, is doing cannot be possible if the National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has not compromised their standards in punishing them. Sampson Okoro, a resident said that the manner NERC Forum delay hearings on DisCo misbehaviour and their inability to enforce their own regulations has given the APLE the impetus to do more harm to Aba residents. “Some of us who have been properly educated by JAG are using the NERC Forum, but we’ve seen their lacklustre actions so, the court of law will be a regular home for APL henceforth. They’ll be visiting the courts steadily henceforth because we have had enough. “Those who are not properly educated may resort to beating them up as a solution to fighting their excesses but for me and my area, we’ll keep using the peaceful and lawful means JAG has instructed to apply and it’s working smoothly. “But all the sufferings of Aba people are aided by NERC and NERC Forum because they’re part of what’s happening. The DisCo here in Aba is not afraid of NERC because they pay them. “I’ve noticed how NERC officials in one of their meetings here in Aba were begging customers here in Aba not to go to court because they know that the court will always give customers sound judgement,” Okoro said. The residents equally accused security agencies in Abia State of forming a dubious partnership with the DisCo who now carry their men and personnel around areas where they want to effect their usual extortionist activities knowing fully well that they will be resisted. According to Opigwe, “Many residents now have problems with NERC. Maybe they now see the court as their final destination. There’s a rule explaining that NERC Resolution Forum has about eight weeks to discharge the matter and you see NERC Forum hold the matter for eternity and the customer will be suffering. “Once someone activates the Resolution at NERC Forum, no DisCo should disconnect you, but here in Aba someone will have a case at NERC Forum and the DisCo will go and do otherwise and NERC Forum will do nothing, so I don’t blame the people fully for not trusting NERC Forum so much, but we as residents must continue to do our own whether through NERC Forum or the court. “The way APL is telling people who have cases with them to go to NERC Forum today shows that there’s something wrong between them and the NERC Forum. Because it’s difficult for an offender to ask you to go to a place he knows you’ll get justice against him. “They have a maximum of eight weeks to do their job but they hold cases at their comfort. I think the problem is coming from the standard complaint measures that made it clear that the DisCos pay for the office of the NERC Forum all over the country. “It’s written in NERC’s customers’ complaint handling standard and procedures and he who pays the piper dictates the tune. So, those who can go to court should quickly follow that means which is the ultimate channel to handle the cases. “These DisCos are pushing customers to the wall. It’ll not be fair if nothing is done now to checkmate this. Let them check their conscience. Let those who follow them as security agencies to do this terrible revenue drive to please, cross-check themselves if what they’re doing is right.”
The Marketing Manager, APL, Mr Jude Efidi said that he had not seen any electricity regulation that prescribes 3 Months and 10 days notice conveyed in writing to customers before disconnection. He said that their power suppliers supply them and then demand money at the end of the month from them hence the need to. “Yes, we pay NERC; If we pay these organization that we buy bulk electricity from and also pay NERC, then how come that somebody is coming from the moon to tell us that we must allow for 3 months before disconnecting any customer”, he said. Efidi said since the take over of the Aba Ring-Fenced Area consisting 9 local government areas in Abia by APL, they have been issuing prepaid meters. He said that currently, APL is about entering the Mass Metering Phase of their prepaid meter issuance. He, however said that Aba Customers were owing APL billions of Naira which they needed to use to fund their metering project which is cost-intensive. “We have given them supply on credit and yet they are not paying us and everybody is crying, give us meter, give us meter. Is it not funds that we will use to acquire meters”, he asked. On the shortage of supply that APL is giving to Aba residents, Efidi said that it is not APL that applied for 25 megawatts. “It is the suppliers that are cutting our supply just the way we go ahead to disconnect customers or we do load-shedding sometimes. “We had no choice. Of course it will impact our service to customers”, he said.
The APL Marketing Manager said that APL has already started planning to use a Feeder called Ehi Feeder inside Ehi Road Market. “We are metering everywhere there. We started by putting meters on the transformers. That is the first step. We have certified the once metered and after that we will give everyone meter and then pump power”, he said.
The leadership crisis rocking the Labour Party (LP) deepened on Tuesday as it suspended a factional leader, Lamidi Apapa, its National Deputy Chairman (South) and some other officials.
The party also appointed acting executive members according to a statement signed by Ladi Iliya, national deputy chairperson and Kenedy Ahanotu, deputy national secretary.
They stated that the decision was taken at a National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the party held in Asaba and attended by members of the National Working Committee.
Also in attendance at the Asaba meeting were state chairpersons and secretaries of the party and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi.
The Asaba meeting was also attended by the party’s National Assembly members-elect, officials of INEC, those of the NLC and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), the statement read.
It added that the NEC reaffirmed and upheld the decision of the Akure convention which expelled its former publicity secretary, Arabambi Abayomi.
“NEC considered the disciplinary committee’s report which recommended the suspension of the former Youth Leader, Mr Anslem Eragbe and recommended him for expulsion at the next national convention.
“Pending the next convention, NEC suspends Eragbe indefinitely.
“NEC also suspended the following National Working Committee (NWC) members: Lamidi Apapa, Alhaji Salem Lawal, Favour Reuben, Gbenga Daramola, Samuel Akingbade and Mohammed Akali,’’ the statement also read.
It added that the NEC constituted a disciplinary committee comprising the National Youth Leader, Kennedy Ahanotu; Acting National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, and Acting National Legal Adviser, Edun Kehinde, as members.
It listed other members as the Acting Deputy National Secretary, Rotimi Kehinde and the National Vice Chairman South-South, Anthony Ezeagwu.
The NEC also critically evaluated the 2023 general elections and noted INEC’s failure to transmit election results in real-time from polling units, which it said gave room for massive manipulation of results.
The statement condemned electoral violence and the use of security agencies to intimidate voters and perpetrate other crimes in parts of the country.
“NEC noted the resilience, and doggedness of our presidential candidate and its resolve to legitimately reclaim its mandate in court.
“NEC accordingly calls on the judiciary to do the right thing irrespective of whose ox is gored,’’ the statement also read.
It stressed its implicit confidence in Julius Abure-led National Working Committee (NWC).
The Labour Party is now Nigeria’s third-largest party. Its presidential candidate, Mr Obi, came third in the presidential election while it also won the third-highest number of seats in both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
The Embassy of the Republic of Guinea in Abuja, Nigeria, has confirmed that the Guinean passport purportedly belonging to Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is actually a diplomatic passport.
The Guinean Embassy made the confirmation following a Freedom of Information application written to the diplomatic corp by News Band correspondent.
The application entitled “Freedom of Information Act Inquiry over Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Guinean citizenship” sought to obtain information on the passport which has been trending online.
The application reads in part: “The Freedom of Information Act 2011 of the laws of the Federation of Nigeria is an Act to make public records and information more freely available, provide for public access to public records and information, protect public records and information to the extent consistent with the public interest and the protection of personal privacy.
“On the basis of the above-mentioned subject, I write to obtain detailed information on the attached document attached below which has been trending online for some time.
“According to the document, Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a citizen of Guinea, besides being a citizen of Nigeria.
“Can you kindly clarify the said issue to enable me provide accurate information to the reading public?
“I will appreciate your doing in line with the Freedom of Information Act.”
Responding, the Embassy of the Republic of Guinea stated that “the diplomatic passport is issued only by the Presidency of the Republic.”
It, however, failed to “confirm the authenticity of this passport.”
The Embassy wrote: “We inform you that in the Republic of Guinea, the diplomatic passport is issued only by the Presidency of the Republic.
“Therefore, we regret that we cannot confirm the authenticity of this passport.
“To find out more, we invite you to send us an official request via the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accompanied by a copy of the passport in question that we could send to the competent authorities in Guinea to verify whether the person concerned has benefited from the Guinean nationality.”
In reaction, News Band informed the Embassy that its “response was more of a smokescreen than a response”.
The applicant averred that it does not behoove on him to approach Guinean Government through the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs since “it is clear that issuing passports is an internal affair, hence, has nothing to do with my country’s Foreign Affairs”.
He maintained that he has already sent a copy of the passport in question as an attachment to the email, asking: “Do you expect me to go and collect the original from the purported holder, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who is currently “resting” in France?”
He reminded the Embassy that since he made no mention of “diplomatic passport” but the fact that the Embassy went ahead and confirmed that the passport in question is in circulation and that it is indeed a diplomatic one “is in itself an affirmation of some sort”.
Finally, he warned the Embassy that if within the next seven (7) days, as stipulated by Freedom of Information Act 2011, he still does not receive the desired response, he will approach a competent court of jurisdiction for redress.
The Embassy is yet to respond to the latest averment.
Though Twitter sanctioned Mr Hundeyin over what it described as a “breach of privacy”, there seems no end in sight to the controversy as Nigerians have started calling out Tinubu to come clarify himself.
“I’m a Nigerian. Committed Nigerian. I don’t have any dual nationality. So, this (Nigeria) is my own country.
Though Twitter sanctioned Mr Hundeyin over what it described as a “breach of privacy”, there seems no end in sight to the controversy as Nigerians have started calling out Tinubu to come clarify himself.
“I’m a Nigerian. Committed Nigerian. I don’t have any dual nationality. So, this (Nigeria) is my own country.
”If They Come At Us Through Land, Air, Sea, We’ll Respond To Them Same Way” Peter Obi Tells Supporters
The candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election, Mr Peter Obi, has encouraged his supporters to have faith as he goes through the process of challenging the victory of Bola Tinubu in the election.
Tinubu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, was declared the winner of the election after polling 8,794,726 votes.
His biggest challenger, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party polled a total of 6,984,520 votes in the election while Obi came third in the election with a total of 6,101,533 votes.
Obi said he never expected the journey to having a new Nigeria to be an easy one.
The former Anambra governor said the forces that had lived off the old order over the years were bound to fight back.
“If they come at us through land, air and sea, we will respond to them through land, air and sea, but we will remain law abiding and will never give up on the nation,” Obi said.
“We are on the right path, and we will remain committed to the course.”
He reiterated his commitment to a “Nigeria that will be beneficial to every Nigerian”.
According to him, the struggle to challenge the outcome of the election and reclaim what he claimed was stolen from him, was not about him but about millions of Nigerians who trusted and voted for him.
“The millions of Nigerians who voted for me did not just cast their votes, but they invested their hope in me. They deserve justice. So we must stay the course. And beyond regaining our mandate, I am committed to lifting people out of poverty.
“I remain committed to transforming Nigeria, starting from the North to every part of the nation,” Obi stated.
He said he was not afraid of the ‘lies and propaganda” of his political opponents.
“I have always lived my life in the most law-abiding manner possible. Sometimes, as humans, we make mistakes, but I will never knowingly break any law. I am, therefore, not afraid of the lies and propaganda against my person. They are part of the journey to a new Nigeria,” Obi concluded.
A governorship aspirant of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC in Kogi state, Smart Adeyemi, has described the outcome of the primary election in the state as a ‘rape of democracy.’
Adeyemi stated this while speaking in an interview on Arise Television on Monday.
The Kogi lawmaker, who insisted the was no election, said God will descend on officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, if they agree that the APC primaries election took place.
Adeyemi said, “About eight of us, apart from probably the man that was anointed, none of us has the privilege to vote. In essence, there was no voting anywhere. What they did was to write the result. It was a sham, It was a rape of democracy, It was a disgrace, a betrayal of all those who laid down their lives for the enthronement of democracy in Nigeria
I have heard of rigging, if there was voting and we alleged rigging OK we will say were rigged out, but in this instance, we were at our polling unit at our ward secretariat, there was no material, nobody, what they did was to invite the chairmen of the local government areas including those of them who were said to have been suspended;
were recall three days to the election and they were given a marching order, collect the material that from the panel that came from Abuja and they went to their closets and fill the forms and brought some 10 to 15 people within their compound and area and they said they have voted and that was the result.
“While we were still standing at our various wards, we contestants looked at each other. It was 11 o’clock, it was 12 nobody, 1 pm nobody. We were still there at 2 o’clock when we started hearing the results of the election.
“It is unimaginable. This is a new phenomenon that must not stand because if Kogi State gets away with this, other Governors will copy this. There was no election. Ask my colleague, ask the security service, and ask the INEC people unless they want God to descend on them. There was no voting.”
Recall that Ahmed Usman Ododo, a former Auditor-General for Local Governments in Kogi State, emerged as the flagbearer of the APC for the Kogi governorship election.
Ododo scored a total of 78,704 votes to win the direct primary election held on Friday.
He defeated six other contestants in the governorship race – the distant runner-up, Barr. Mohammed Ozigi Salami, who got 1,506 votes; Adeyemi, who polled the least number of votes– 311.
Prof. Hudu Yunus Ari, the Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner, has been beaten mercilessly by angry mob after he controversially declared senator Aisha Binani as the winner of the supplementary election which was held yesterday by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
Mr Ari went ahead to declare Binani winner when results were being expected from 10 of the 20 Local Government Areas, News Band gathered.
Though, Professor Mohammed Mele, the returning officer, had earlier adjourned the collation till 11am. But the REC made his way to the hall to make the pronouncement and departed immediately.
The returning officer was nowhere in sight when the REC made the announcement which triggered confusion.
The results being expected are from:
1.Madagali
2.Michika
3.Mubi North
4.Mubi South
5.Gombi
6.Toungo
7.Numan
8.Mayo Belwa
9.Guyuk
10.Gire
The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, won the 25 February presidential election in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, according to results uploaded on the INEC Results Viewing Portal (IReV) by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Obi’s haul of votes in the area implies he, and not Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), won the presidential election in Rivers, contrary to the declaration made by INEC.
The result for Obio/Akpor council area, as declared by INEC, portrayed Mr Tinubu as scoring 80, 239 votes, with Mr Obi garnering 3,829 votes.
Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) scored 368 votes while Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party got 161 votes, this newspaper had reported.
Mr Tinubu was later declared winner of the election. Atiku came second while Mr Obi came third.
But, PREMIUM TIMES’ review of the results from various polling units of the 17 wards in Obio/Akpor LGA as uploaded on IReV revealed a sharp contrast with the result declared by INEC.
However, winning Rivers does not mean Mr Obi would have won the presidential election. He still would have falling far short of winning the highest number of votes nationally and scoring 25 percent of votes in at least 24 states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, as stipulated by the Nigerian constitution.
Given that Mr Tinubu was declared winner in Obio/Akpor, this newspaper’s review focused on the results of the votes scored by the APC and LP in the area.
By our tally, the APC got 17, 158 votes while the LP amassed 73,311 votes.
Obio/Akpor Local Government Area has 1,211 polling units across its 17 wards.
PREMIUM TIMES could only review results from 1,116 polling units uploaded on the IReV as of 16 March, representing about 94.13 percent of the results from the council area.
However, results from some polling units were either blurred or improperly snapped and therefore illegible.
Results from about 95 polling units, representing about 5.87 per cent, were yet to be uploaded within the period under review.
There were no results in some polling units either because the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System malfunctioned or people did not come out to cast their votes, as observed at Ake Hostel UNIPORT Polling Unit in Choba Ward.
This newspaper computed the available and readable results from the 1,116 polling units uploaded so far on the IReV within the period of the review.
In some polling units in Obio/Akpor, PREMIUM TIMES found that some results were altered in favour of the APC, with the original scores mutilated.
The result from Rumuorluoji Open Space II polling unit in Oro-Igwe Ward, for instance, showed that the APC originally scored 17 but the number, ‘2’ was added to the figure to read ‘217.’
For the LP, 227 was recorded, but the number ‘2’ was erased and altered to read ‘027.’
At the column meant for recording the scores in words, there were evidence of adjustments to suit the changed figures.
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In Rumuokoro Ward, it was noticed that in 34 polling units, results earlier written for the LP were erased and the figures swapped with that of the APC.
In some cases, the results for the National Assembly elections were uploaded in some polling units instead of the presidential election results.
A result from the Civic Centre Hall Polling Unit in Rumuigbo Ward, for instance, showed that a result from the House of Representatives election was uploaded in place of that of the presidential election.
PREMIUM TIMES also tallied results from Degema Local Government Area uploaded on the IReV, and the findings confirmed Mr Tinubu won in the council area, although the score was slightly lower than the one announced by INEC.
However, this newspaper could not tally the results from some polling units in the council area because they were illegible or not yet uploaded within the period under review.
Mr Obi was leading Mr Tinubu with over 23,000 votes by the time INEC announced the presidential election results in 21 of the 23 local government areas in the state.
The LP candidate polled 169,414 votes at the time, while Mr Tinubu scored 148,979 votes.
Mr Obi’s largest votes at the time came from Port Harcourt City Local Government Area where he scored 62,451 votes, while Atiku scored 7,203 votes, followed by Mr Tinubu, who scored 5,562 votes. Kwankwaso scored 301.
Results were still being expected then from two remaining local government areas – Obio/Akpor, where the State Governor, Nyesom Wike, hails from, and Degema.
With the results from Obio/Akpor coming in, and with INEC announcing that Mr Tinubu scored 80, 239 votes against Mr Obi’s 3,829 votes, the APC candidate was now in the lead and was eventually declared the winner of the presidential election in Rivers State.
Atiku scored 368 votes in Obio/Akpor, while Mr Kwankwaso scored 161 votes.
In Degema Local Government Area, Mr Tinubu scored 2,375 votes, while Mr Obi scored 2,212 votes. Atiku scored 3,108 votes, while Mr Kwankwaso scored 44 votes.
Mr Tinubu polled 231,591 votes in Rivers State as against Mr Obi’s 175,071 votes, according to INEC.
Atiku scored 88,468, while Mr Kwankwaso clinched 1,322 votes
The collation officer for the presidential election in Rivers had adjourned the collation of results at some point over alleged threat to his life by some supporters of a political party.
There were reports of attacks and suppression of voters in the state.
