Tribunal sacks speaker, 20 lawmakers in Rivers State

By Eric Ikhilae,

The Rivers State legislative election petition tribunals yesterday nullified the election of 20 out of the 32 members of the state House of Assembly.

BREAKING NEWS: Tribunal sacks Wike as Rivers Governor, orders rerun

The Rivers State Election Petition Tribunal has sacked Nyesom Wike as the Governor of Rivers State.

Rivers Governorship Election marred by violence, says INEC

Mr Charles Okoye, a witness for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the ongoing trial for the April 11 Rivers State Governorship election, said on Friday that the election was marred by violence. Okoye, who was in charge of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) election, campaign and party monitoring group in the state, said this in his testimony to the tribunal in Abuja.

PREMIUM TIMES EXCLUSIVE: Rivers’ Nyeson Wike a goner; INEC document exposes fraud by PDP, INEC, in guber poll

Nyesom Wike

By Adebayo Hassan

Except the five governorship candidates challenging the credibility of the April 11 governorship election in Rivers withdraw their cases from the election petition tribunal or fail to present material evidence like the one exclusively obtained by PREMIUM TIMES, Nyesom Wike of the Peoples Democratic Party, who was returned winner of the election, is as good as gone.

Wike is Rivers next governor, says Patience Jonathan

Mrs. Patience Jonathan

The wife of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, has restated her endorsement for the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State, Nyesom Wike.