Siminialayi Fubara of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been declared the winner of the Rivers State governorship election.
State Returning Officer, Professor Akpofure Rim-Rukeh, announced the result late Monday night at the end of the collation at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Head Office in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
The PDP candidate polled 302,614 votes to defeat his closet rival Tonye Cole of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who scored 95,274 votes while the Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate, Senator Magnus Abe, and Labour Party (LP)’s, Beatrice Itubo came a distant third and fourth with 46,981 and 22,224 votes respectively.