Breaking: INEC halts collation of Rivers election results, to continue on Wednesday

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reportedly halted the collation of results for the governorship election in Rivers state.

The Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Obo Effanga, announced this on Tuesday, April 2, at the collation centre in Port Harcourt, the state capital, Channels TV reports.

According to her, the electoral body will continue with the exercise at 10am on Wednesday, April 3.

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The announcement followed the collation of results from 15 local government areas of the state.

Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)'s Governor Nyesom Wike is leading in most of the local government areas announced so far.

According to the electoral commission, Wike comfortably polled total of 249,400 votes, while his arch-rival of the Africa Action Congress (AAC), Biokpomabo Awara, polled total votes of 106,886 votes.

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Awara is backed by All Progressive Congress (APC)'s Rotimi Amaechi, the minister of transport, in the Rivers governorship election.

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