Candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who contested the rerun elections for the state and national assembly seats, won in most of the results released yesterday by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in Rivers State.
According to the results, the PDP candidates won in the four House of Representatives seats for Port Harcourt Constituency I and II, just as the party clinched the seat for Obio Akpor and Odua/Ahoada East Federal Constituencies.
In that order, Hon. Ken Chikere, Hon. Blessing Nsiegbe, Hon. Kingsley Chinda and Hon. Betty Apiafi of the PDP were returned to the House of Representatives. For the state constituency, while the PDP won seven out of the nine seats INEC announced, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC won two seats.
The PDP candidates won in Port Harcourt II Constituency, Omuma, Onelga, Opobo Nkoro, Obio/Akpor I, Emuoha, Akoku Toru I, Ahoada East II. The APC won in Opobo/Nkoro. INEC disqualified the PDP candidate for Akoku Toru II, Tonye Asari Alalibo in the statement released by INEC.
