APC wins 20, PDP three in Rivers LGA election

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has won 20 of the 23 local government areas in Saturday’s Chairmanship and Councillorship elections in Rivers State.

The ruling party in the state, the Peoples’ Democratic Party, on the other hand, won only three LGAs in the poll conducted by the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission.

Governor Siminalayi Fubara also lost his Opobo-Nkoro LGA to the main opposition party in the state.

Dr Michael Odey, RSIEC Chairman, announced the results at the commission’s Headquarters along Aba Road in Port Harcourt on Sunday afternoon.