With the just collated governorship results in Rivers state, Wike’s cheer person’s has already sent in their congratulatory messages but INEC has a surprise for them.
The Independent
National Electoral Commission, INEC, has given an update with regards to the
just concluded collated results for the Governorship election in the state.
The result which has
Wike leading with 886,264 votes over his strongest opponent, Awara of the ACC
party (173,809 votes)… still have more to come as INEC in a statement by Festus
Okoye, National Commissioner of Information on Thursday, disclosed that the
supplementary election in four LGAS scheduled on April 12th will
still hold.
The statement read in part:
“The Commission met today April 4, 2019 and reviewed the conduct of the
just-concluded Rivers State collation exercise.
“The commission expresses
satisfaction with the outcome and commends security agencies for their
professionalism which ensured peaceful conduct and conclusion of the exercise.
“However, supplementary election will be held in affected areas on
April 13, 2019 in line with the timetable released by the Commission.”
