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Rivers Elections: INEC declares Wike winner

Governor Nyesom Wike of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has been declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC as the winner of the Rivers Governorship Election.

Wike polled 886,264 votes to defeat other candidates in the Rivers governorship election.

INEC had, on March 10, suspended the collation of the results of the election in the state citing electoral violence.

The electoral umpire also announced the schedule of activities for the resumption of the exercise, with collation and announcement of results slated to hold between April 2 and April 5.

Ben Idah

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