In Rivers, Mr. Tinubu was declared as the winner. Peter Obi came in third, followed by Atiku.
According to results posted on the INEC Results Viewing Portal (IReV), Peter Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), won the 25 February presidential election in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, South-South Nigeria.
Contrary to what INEC declared, Mr. Obi’s vote total in the region suggests that he, not Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), won the presidential election in Rivers.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a candidate for the APC presidency.
incoming president Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
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.
According to this newspaper, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) received 368 votes while Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party received 161.
Later, Mr. Tinubu was announced as the election’s winner. Mr. Obi came in third, followed by Atiku.
However, we found a significant discrepancy between the results as reported by INEC and the results from the various polling units of the 17 wards in the Obio/Akpor LGA as uploaded on IReV.
But winning Rivers does not guarantee Mr. Obi would have won in the general election. As required by the Nigerian constitution, he still wouldn’t have received enough votes to win the most votes nationwide or garner 25% of the vote in at least 24 states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory.
Methodology
Given that Mr. Tinubu was declared winner in Obio/Akpor, the analysis in this newspaper concentrated on the outcomes of the votes obtained by the APC and LP there.
According to our count, the LP received 73,311 votes, compared to 17,158 votes for the APC.
There are 1,211 polling locations throughout Obio/Akpor Local Government Area.
