Residents Defy Downpour to Cast Ballots Amid BVAS Challenges and Movement Restrictions... Despite heavy rainfall on Saturday morning, residents of Rivers South-East Senatorial District turned out in large numbers to participate in the by-election taking place across seven local government areas of Rivers State. The election is being conducted to fill the vacant senatorial …
Former governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Tonye Cole, has faulted the conduct of the recently concluded local government elections in the state, saying the exercise could have been done differently and better. Cole stated this on Tuesday during an interview on Prime Time, a programme aired on Arise Television. …
The just-concluded Rivers State local government election has triggered heated debates over legality, democratic legitimacy, and the entrenched power struggle between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his estranged political benefactor and FCT Minister Nyesom Wike. The polls, which saw the APC sweep 20 chairmanship seats while the PDP managed only three, were conducted under the supervision …
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has commended the people of Rivers State for boycotting what he described as a sham local government election conducted on Saturday. Eze expressed confidence that the courts would eventually nullify the exercise, which, according to him, was managed by a team unlawfully appointed by …
