With a difference of 712,405 votes, Wike ‘crushes’ AAC candidate, declared Rivers governor-elect

With 886,264 votes, Nyesom Wike, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been declared winner of the March 9 Rivers State election.
Prof. Teddy Adias, the State Returning Officer, who doubles as the Deputy Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Otueke, Bayelsa State, declared Wike winner of the controversial poll in Port Harcourt.
Adias said that Wike’s closest challenger and the candidate of African Action Congress (AAC), Awara Biokpomabo, got 173,859 votes.
With the result from 21 local governments, Wike won another term in office with a difference of 712,405 votes.
Adias said the total number of registered voters was 3,048,741, accredited voters 1,130,445, valid votes cast 1,102,823, total votes cast 1,123,840 and voided votes 249,324.
Mr Chukwunenye Kocha, the AAC party agent, said that the party would study the results before taking any decision.
Kocha, however, said that the party stood for peace.
He urged the people of Rivers and other political parties to maintain peace.
While there was jubilation by PDP members after the announcement of the result, AAC members and some sympathisers from the All Progressives Congress (APC) were seen protesting.