The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has denied reports that Peter Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), won the presidential election in Rivers State. This comes after a media report claimed that Obi emerged as the winner of the exercise in Rivers, based on results uploaded on the INEC Results Viewing Portal (IReV).
According to INEC, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, won the presidential election in the South-South state. The electoral body had announced that Tinubu polled 80,239 votes to win in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, while Obi scored 3,829 votes to come second in the council.
In a statement issued on Monday in Abuja, the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC chairman, Rotimi Oyekanmi, said the report of the news outlet was “prejudicial” since the matter is before the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal. Oyekanmi added that while Premium Times reserves the right to publish reports on various issues, it is a known fact that when a matter is before a court, no one, including a media organisation, should comment on it.
