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Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, said the All Progressives Congress (APC) was too divided to have won the governorship election in the state.

Wike spoke on Tuesday during a media briefing in Port Harcourt, the state’s capital.

Siminialayi Fubara, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was declared the winner of the gubernatorial election in Rivers.

Fubara secured 302,614 votes to defeat Tonye Cole of the APC, who polled 95,274.

Rotimi Amaechi, a former governor of the state, backed Cole.

Wike said members of the APC in Rivers were not united, noting that a divided party cannot win an election.

He said: “How could Rotimi Amaechi and Tonye Cole have won this election after dividing their party into several mutually destructive fragments with opposing political camps without the strengths to take up the united, solid, and highly performing PDP?

“Rotimi Amaechi caused what was left of the Rivers state APC to be further inflated to a shadow of its own with a descending opposition of Tonye Cole and its members having been abandoned by virtually all party bigwigs and Ameachi associates.

“The deserted Tonye Cole campaign was lacklustre, limited in reach, and ineffective in impacting the electorates.

“As a selfish businessman, Tonye Cole was more of a stranger even to his community where he has contributed nothing to its development.

“Little wonder he was rejected in his ward and community to the entire local government area.”