 The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared PDP candidate Simi Nalai-Fubara, winner of the March 18th Governorship election in River State. INEC State Returning Officer Professor Akwafuri Rimkuke, who declared the results at the INEC headquarters in Rivers, said PDP scored 302,614 votes while Tonya Cole, the Governorship candidate of the APC, polled 95,274 votes to come second and the candidate of the Social Democratic Party, Senator Magnus Abbey, scored 46,981 votes. Simi Nalai-Fubara, of the PDP, has scored the highest votes and has certified a test rate with satisfactory margin of lead, is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected. The pronouncement by the Returning Officer was met with mixed feelings from some party agents present who rejected the results. Professor Akwafuri explained that of the 494,604 total votes cast, 483,934 were valid while 10,670 were rejected votes. Simi Nalai-Fubara, we believe him being a hard-working man, a disciplined man, that he will deliver the dividend of democracy to reverse people. As a political party, we are rejecting that result. It does not in any way reflect the collective wish of reverse people. That was a written report handed down to INEC and the Returning Officer to announce. The party is not going to let this low. We are going to escalate it. We are going to take it off from here. Everybody, every single Nigerian, know that what happened in the river state was not a political election. This is a fabrication. This is an allocation of figures. We are not going to take it in connevance with security agents.