Siminialayi Fubara, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Rivers has been declared the winner of the governorship election in the state.
Akpofure Rim-Rukeh, the state returning officer, who announced the result on Monday night at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Head Office in Port Harcourt, said Fubara polled 302,614 votes to defeat his closet rival Tonye Cole of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who scored 95,274 votes.
Magnus Abe, candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), and Beatrice Itubo of the Labour Party (LP) came a distant third and fourth with 46,981 and 22,224 votes respectively.
Rim-Rukeh who is also the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Petroleum Resources said a total of 496,852 voters were accredited for the March 18 election out of the 3,537,190 registered voters in the state.
He explained that of the 494,604 total votes cast, 483,934 were valid while 10, 670 were rejected votes.
