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The candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, won the 25 February presidential election in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, South-south Nigeria, according to results ed on the INEC Results Viewing Portal (IReV).

Mr 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 TIMES’ review of the results from various polling units of the 17 wards in Obio/Akpor LGA as ed on IReV revealed a sharp contrast with the result declared by INEC.

Methodology

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.

TIMES could only review results from 1,116 polling units ed 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 ed 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 ed so far on the IReV within the period of the review.

Other findings

In some polling units in Obio/Akpor, 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.

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.

TIMES, nevertheless, tallied the figures as published by INEC, despite the obvious evidence of adjustments and mutilations. In other words, the figures were tallied as they appeared on result sheets, even when there was evidence that such figures were tampered with.

In some cases, the results for the National Assembly elections were ed 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 ed in place of that of the presidential election.

Results from Degema

TIMES also tallied results from Degema Local Government Area ed 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 ed within the period under review.

Obi was leading initially

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 ers of a political party.

There were reports of attacks and suppression of voters in the state.

Background

Governor Wike, who is a member of the PDP, led other PDP governors to rebel against the national leadership of the party and its presidential candidate, Atiku, following disagreement over which of the north or the south should produce President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor.

The Rivers governor had contested and lost in the PDP presidential primary.

He then ed the APC candidate, Mr Tinubu in the presidential election, saying since Mr Buhari is from the north, the next president of Nigeria, for the sake of fairness, should come from the south.

Mr Obi, like Mr Tinubu, is from the south of Nigeria.

Source: https://www.timesng.com/news/593521-revealed-results-on-inec-portal-show-peter-obi-not-tinubu-won-in-rivers.html

This government......it is only in Nigeria that agberos and touts force themselves on educated people as rulers....I weep at times for many poor masses as they struggle for their daily bread in this "by force" government...

And results also shows TINUBU won in Anambra, abia, ENUGU and plateau state

time came late. We know already

Oboy. I no know wetin to say. Somebody say something for me abeg.

Na only Obio Akpor dey Rivers?
Obi lost the presidential election. Ethnicity and d churches failed to make him president.

Please can we move the votes in Rivers and give Peter Obi make we hear word.

Urchiins come and see something

yarimo:
And results also shows TINUBU won in Anambra, abia, ENUGU and plateau state

used to know you of being an unintelligent fellow,I never knew it has turned you to a mad man.

Mumu Biafra people, Tinubu is ur next President .

Jagabanofafrica:
Mumu Biafra people, Tinubu is ur next President .

Mr Seun, how can I block myself from seeing comments from Tinubu's surpporters? Please help sane people on Nairaland. Please!

Inec body under Mahmoud Yakubu has been compromised. It’s unfortunate

take it to court

Everfrank:
Na only Obio Akpor dey Rivers?
Obi lost the presidential election. Ethnicity and d churches failed to make him president.

And Tinubu Muslim Muslim ticket made him president abi?

Then go ahead and declare obi president... What else?

But be rest assured, Obi is not going anywhere near Aso Rock!

Yesterday Times was a Tinubu's newspaper, today it's not.... being an obi-diot is the worst thing that can happen to any sane human being.

By May 29th, 2023, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be sworn in as the president of the federal republic of Nigeria.... Anybody not comfortable with that can embrace the lagoon.

iSense247:
Mr Seun, how can I block myself from seeing comments from Tinubu's surpporters? Please help sane people on Nairaland. Please!

They don't tell truth. Stealing and rigging is in their blood line

yarimo:
And results also shows TINUBU won in Anambra, abia, ENUGU and plateau state

Your madness just start. Just dey look

Jagabanofafrica:
Mumu Biafra people, Tinubu is ur next President .

Insanity dey easy to buy like dis?
Ehen!

All apc results should be declared null and void bc of this by the court....
This will teach them a lesson.

Obi won 13 states and Abuja. That's an indisputable fact and we'll prove it in court.

Bringbackmandat:
used to know you of being an unintelligent fellow,I never knew it has turned you to a mad man.

That guy is one of the most foolish thing God created

Very good I like your last sentence you will prove it in court?

Freethinker87:
Obi won 13 states and Abuja. That's an indisputable fact and we'll prove it in court.

Freethinker87:
Obi won 13 states and Abuja. That's an indisputable fact and we'll prove it in court.

Prove what, That Elupee no get candidate for presidential election?

Freethinker87:
Obi won 13 states and Abuja. That's an indisputable fact and we'll prove it in court.

Patrick Utomi working for his good friend Bola Tinubu, just deceived that Mumu Gringory Obi to contest, & rob Abubakar Atiku of his victory.

“That the petition of the Labor party as frivolous & incompetent, stating that disqualification factors as stipulated by the Constitution only conceives of a conviction sentence or fine involving dishonesty or fraud or contravention of the Code of Conduct as found by a Court of the law of competent jurisdiction or Tribunal in Nigeria,” it added.

While urging the court to strike out petitions against Tinubu, the APC argued that Mr. Peter Obi of the Labour Party, who alleged that Tinubu was convicted for drug-related case, lacked the requisite locus standi to challenge the outcome of the presidential election.

Insisting that Obi was not validly nominated by the LP, the APC, stressed that he was not a member of the party, at least 30 days before it conducted its presidential primary election.

It told the court that Obi was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, till May 24 2022, adding that he was screened as a presidential aspirant of the party in April, 2022.

APC further averred that whereas Obi ed the LP on May 27, he was subsequently declared the winner of the presidential primary election the LP held on May 30, 2022.

“By section 77(3) of the Electoral Act, 2022, the 2nd Petitioner (LP) is mandated to have submitted its comprehensive of to the 1st Respondent 30 days before its presidential primary.

“That is to say the said of must have been submitted to the 1st Respondent on or before 30th April, 2022.

“The 1st Petitioner (Obi) as at 30th April, 2022 was still a member of the PDP and his name was not and could not have been in the of submitted by the 2nd Petitioner to 1st Respondent (INEC).

“The Petition herein is incompetent as the 1st Petitioner is not a member of the 2nd Petitioner since the 1st Petitioner’s name is not, and could have been listed in the list of the made available by the 2nd Petitioner to the 1st Respondent, same having been made available before the 1st Petitioner ed the 2nd Petitioner”.

It, therefore, prayed the court to dismiss or strike out Obi’s petition “wholly or in part as may be appropriate”.

iSense247:
Mr Seun, how can I block myself from seeing comments from Tinubu's surpporters? Please help sane people on Nairaland. Please!

Biafraland will be more suitable for you if you choose not to hear the truth, not Nairaland.

Kiar

Whatever man

Toh

favor914:
Biafraland will be more suitable for you if you choose not to hear the truth, not Nairaland.