Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa has congratulated Nyesom Wike on his re-election for a second term as Governor of Rivers State.
DAILY POST reports that Governor Nyesom Wike of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was on Wednesday declared winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
The State Returning Officer, Deputy Vice Chancellor of Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State, Professor Teddy Addia, declared that Governor Wike polled 886,264 votes to defeat his closest rival Biokpomabo Awara of the AAC who polled one hundred and seventy three thousand eight hundred and nine votes.
Okowa in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Charles Aniagwu in Asaba on Wednesday said Wike’s victory showed that “power truly belongs to the people.”
The statement read: “Although the Rivers State Governorship Election took a long and tortuouse time, at the end the will of the people prevailed and I must thank the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC for doing the right thing in ensuring that the true results that emanated from the units were duly collated
“I commend the people of Rivers State for their unflinching loyalty and support for the PDP assuring that Governor Wike will deliver more projects for the people in his second tenure.
“On behalf of the government and people of Delta State, I congratulate my dear brother and colleague, Ezenwo Nyesom Wike on his well deserved victory in the just concluded Rivers State Governorship Election.
“I also congratulate our great party the Peoples Democratic Party PDP in Rivers State and all our teeming supporters nationwide for this well deserved victory.
“From the margin of victory it is safe to say that power indeed belongs to the people and they decide whom to freely give it to.”
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