According to a report by Premiumtimes, results posted on the INEC Results Viewing Portal (IReV) show that Peter Obi, the Labour Party's (LP) candidate, won the 25 February presidential election in Rivers State's Obio/Akpor Local Government Area.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Bola Tinubu was declared the winner of the Rivers presidential election by INEC, however the report claims that Obi won the region based on the votes cast there. According to the INEC-released results for the Obio/Akpor council area, Mr. Tinubu received 80, 239 votes, while Mr. Obi received 3,829 votes. Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) received 368 votes, according to INEC, while Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party received 161.
Nevertheless, according to Premiumtimes, a comparison of the results from the 17 wards in the Obio/Akpor LGA as uploaded on IReV allegedly showed a stark discrepancy with the outcome announced by INEC. According to the publication's calculations, the APC received 17, 158 ballots while the LP received 73,311 votes. With its 17 wards, the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area contains 1,211 voting locations.
The news outlet claims that as of March 16, it was only able to evaluate data from 1,116 polling places, or around 94.13 percent of the results from the council region.
According to the magazine, some polling units' findings were either blurry or poorly shot, making them impossible to see. 95 polling places, or around 5.87 percent of the total, had results that hadn't yet been posted during the time period under consideration. The Bimodal Voter Accreditation System malfunctioned or voters did not turn up to cast their ballots, as was the case at the Ake Hostel UNIPORT Polling Unit in Choba Ward, according to the news source. The publication calculated the readable and accessible results from the 1,116 polling units that have been posted to the IReV thus far throughout the review period.
The original scores in some polling units in Obio/Akpor, according to Premiumtimes, were allegedly tampered with in order to favor the APC.
‘'The result from Rumuorluoji Open Space II polling unit in Oro-Igwe Ward, for instance, showed that the APC originally scored 17 but the number, ‘2' was added to the figure to read ‘217.' For the LP, 227 was recorded, but the number ‘2' was erased and altered to read ‘027.' At the column meant for recording the scores in words, there were evidence of adjustments to suit the changed figures.
In Rumuokoro Ward, it was noticed that in 34 polling units, results earlier written for the LP were erased and the figures swapped with that of the APC.”
Notwithstanding the evident evidence of modifications and mutilations, Premiumtime claims that it totaled the statistics as INEC reported them. In other words, the numbers were added up exactly as they were listed on the result sheets.
‘'In some cases, the results for the national assembly elections were uploaded in some polling units instead of the presidential election results. A result from the Civic Centre Hall Polling Unit in Rumuigbo Ward, for instance, showed that a result from the House of Representatives election was uploaded in place of that of the presidential election. PREMIUM TIMES also tallied results from Degema Local Government Area uploaded on the IReV, and the findings confirmed Mr Tinubu won in the council area, although the score was slightly lower than the one announced by INEC. However, this newspaper could not tally the results from some polling units in the council area because they were illegible or not yet uploaded within the period under review.
Obi was leading Tinubu with over 23,000 votes by the time INEC announced the presidential election results in 21 of the 23 local government areas in the state. The LP candidate polled 169,414 votes at the time, while Mr Tinubu scored 148,979 votes.
Mr Obi's largest votes at the time came from Port Harcourt City Local Government Area where he scored 62,451 votes, while Atiku scored 7,203 votes, followed by Mr Tinubu, who scored 5,562 votes. Kwankwaso scored 301.
Results were still being expected then from two remaining local government areas – Obio/Akpor, where the State Governor, Nyesom Wike, hails from, and Degema. With the results from Obio/Akpor coming in, and with INEC announcing that Mr Tinubu scored 80, 239 votes against Mr Obi's 3,829 votes, the APC candidate was now in the lead and was eventually declared the winner of the presidential election in Rivers State.
Atiku scored 368 votes in Obio/Akpor, while Mr Kwankwaso scored 161 votes. In Degema Local Government Area, Mr Tinubu scored 2,375 votes, while Mr Obi scored 2,212 votes. Atiku scored 3,108 votes, while Mr Kwankwaso scored 44 votes. Mr Tinubu polled 231,591 votes in Rivers State as against Mr Obi's 175,071 votes, according to INEC. Atiku scored 88,468, while Mr Kwankwaso clinched 1,322 votes.
The collation officer for the presidential election in Rivers had adjourned the collation of results at some point over alleged threat to his life by some supporters of a political party.”
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