Governor Nyesom Wike

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Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt

Ahead of the victory of the incumbent Governor Nyesom Wike, the incumbent of Rivers State, Biokpomabo Awara, the AAC Governorship candidate has rejected the results being collated and released in favour Wike as a mere charade and drama scripted by INEC.

According to Awara who spoke today on a live radio interactive programme in Port Harcourt dismissed Collation exercise.”The whole exercise is drama like World Wrestling Entertainment, WWE. The present game as if it is serious, but its all drama to entertain fans and viewers. Rivers people should remain calm zI was leading Governor Wike with Unit to Unit results but they saw the shocking results INEC did their bidding and suspended the announcement ”

He accused INEC national Chairman Yakubu Mahmoud of working to please Governor Wike who was his boss as the Supervising Minister for Education when Mahmoud was Director of Tertiary Education Trust Fund(TETFUND) that was under the Federal Ministry of Education.

AAC candidate, Awara has also accused the State Secretary of AAC who is also the State Collating Agent for the governorship results for the party, Mr Nenye Kocha, as a double agent who is working for the interest of Wike and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

“Nenye Kocha is not working for my interest and that of AAC. How can attest to someone’s integrity when this morning he drove into the INEC Collation centre in Hon. Austin Opara’s car. Opara is the State PDP Agent for Collation of PDP result.

” When we noticed that he was working for the PDP during the Presidential election. We substituted him with Dr Lawrence Chukwu.I also told him that during the Governorship Collation he will not be the State Collating Agent. And that we were replacing him with Dr Lawrence Chukwu. But Mrs, Agbamuche-_Mbu, Supervising Rivers, Bayelsa and Akwa-Ibom refused, insisting that she will only accept the old name, who is Nenye Mocha. This morning, for instance, Mocha drove into the INEC Collation Centre with Austin Opara, tell me is this person representing me?”

He also dismissed the speculation that Dr Lawrence Chukwu lacks the right to represent him because he is a member of AAC. According to him, Chukwu had joined the AAC.

Asked at what point Lawrence Chukwu joined the AAC, Awara said” I am not a data manager of AAC. The AAC is structured, it is just a matter of accessing the website of AAC and then you get your number. The party is so digitalized that you don’t need to be carrying your party card around. “Biokpomabo Awara said.

Awara vowed that he will legally challenge INEC because the results released did not tally with the Unit results.

Nenye Mocha continued to represent AAC as the resumed Collation today.

Governor Nyesom Wike literally sweeps the vote cast in his local government, Obio-Akpor

Reacting to the collation exercise, state Secretary of AAC and agent for the collation of governorship results for the party, Mr. Nenye Kocha, said he agreed with the Obio-Akpor LGA results as it is understandable that Governor Wike hails from Obio-Akpor.

On the results so far released that have seen Wike leading with a wide margin, he said: “Things are now unveiling. We have been in the dark over what has been happening even when we had thought that we were leading.
“In terms of transparency, the exercise is transparent. But the figures are not what we were expecting.

“As a party, we are going to review the gamut of all that had happened within the period and take a decision. The governorship candidate will also review the situation and take a stand.”Nenye Mocha said.

At the time of filing this report, INEC was on break to resume Collation by 3 pm today Wednesday, April 3.

Results UPDATE

LGA: Obio-Akpor
AAC 7,495
PDP 281,164
Total valid votes 292,324
Rejected votes 2,448
Total votes cast 294,772
There are 17 wards and collation took place in all the wards.

Governor Nyesom Wike is from Rumuepricom community in Obio-Akpor local government Council area and was a two-time Executive Chairman.

Rivers Governorship Result

LGA: OGU/BOLO
AAC 814
PDP 11, 855

LGA: Degema

AAC 5,071
PDP 12,133
Total valid votes 18,158
Rejected votes 544
Total votes cast 19,129
There are 17 wards and collation took place in all the wards but voting did not take place.