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| Rivers Deputy Governor, Mrs. Ipallibo Harry Banigo |
Rivers Deputy Governor, Mrs. Ipallibo Harry Banigo, has won the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ticket for the Rivers West Senatorial District election.
Ipalibo, who hails from Degema Local Government Area, scored 264 votes to clinch the party’s ticket for Rivers West.
The senatorial primaries, which held across the three senatorial districts, also produced Allwell Onyesoh as the candidate of the PDP for Rivers East.
Onyesoh, who hails from Etche Local Government Area, was said to have scored 270 votes to earn him the senatorial flag of the party.
The party also gave its ticket for the Rivers Southeast Senatorial District to a former House of Representatives member, Barinada Mpigi.
The Publicity Secretary of PDP, Sydney Tambari Gbara, described the exercise as peaceful saying consensus method was used in some areas to elect the candidates.
