{"id":177060,"date":"2025-09-01T12:16:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/pdp-victory-in-rivers-lg-election-explained-by-wike"},"modified":"2025-09-01T13:20:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:20:55","slug":"pdp-victory-in-rivers-lg-election-explained-by-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-victory-in-rivers-lg-election-explained-by-wike","title":{"rendered":"PDP Victory in Rivers LG Election Explained by Wike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has explained why Gift Worlu of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, won Obio-Akpor Local Government Area with 328,823 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Wike claimed that the residents of Obio-Akpor Local Government Area take local elections more seriously than general elections.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister stated this on Monday while fielding questions at his monthly media parley in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC, declared the All Progressives Congress (APC) victorious in 20 out of the 23 LGAs following Saturday\u2019s Local Government Area chairmanship elections.<\/p>\n<p>However, mixed reactions greeted the 328,823 votes scored by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Gift Worlu, in the Obio-Akpor Local Government Area election.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the number of votes scored by the PDP candidate, Wike said: \u201cThat\u2019s the problem I have with you people (press). Go and study the history of election in Obio-Akpor LGA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn local government election, you know that the turnout will be more. Councilorship is like community or family affairs, people come out. People even take councilorship more seriously than governorship because it has to do with family or communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what your worry is. Is their worry that it is illegal, or your worries that you don\u2019t believe that this number of people turned out?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was chairman of that local government, the record was very clear. Nobody had had two terms in that local government, but I broke that history. I was governor of that area. You can\u2019t take my record. And if there was nothing, no, you cannot. You can\u2019t beat the record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe won. And my people believe, whether you like it or not, it\u2019s not by coming out, like I\u2019ve always said. You have always preferred those who come sunrise, who come on TVs, people who don\u2019t have facts, they don\u2019t have the facts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has explained why Gift Worlu of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, won Obio-Akpor Local Government Area with 328,823 votes. Wike claimed that the residents of Obio-Akpor Local Government Area take local elections more seriously than general elections. 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