Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has taken the lead in Rivers State after winning Port Harcourt City Local Government Area by a huge majority.
In Port Harcourt City, Obi received 62,451 votes to defeat Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Atiku Abubakar, who received 7,303 votes, and All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Ahmed Bola Tinubu, who received 5,562 votes.
Obi, who had only won in five local government areas, had surpassed Tinubu, who had led Rivers since the commencement of the collation with 12 local government districts.
With Obio-Akpor, Ahoada West, and Degema expected, Obi has so far received 163, 033 votes, trailing Tinubu, who received 140,262, and Atiku, who received 82,109.
There was, however, uproar at the collation center following a protest by some local government officials, who claimed the results were not properly collated.
They insisted that their results were mutilated and called on the commission to cancel the results.
According to them, results in wards 5, 11, and 18 were mutilated by Prof. Victoria Olumide, who is the Local Government Collation Officer.
