2023 Nigerian presidential election in Rivers State

The 2023 Nigerian presidential election in Rivers State will be held on 25 February 2023 as part of the nationwide 2023 Nigerian presidential election to elect the president and vice president of Nigeria.^[1] Other federal elections, including elections to the House of Representatives and the Senate, will also be held on the same date while state elections will be held two weeks afterward on 11 March.

2023 Nigerian presidential election in Rivers State

← 2019 25 February 2023 2027 →
Registered	3,537,190
Nominee Bola Tinubu Peter Obi Party APC LP Home state Lagos Anambra Running mate Kashim Shettima Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed   Nominee Rabiu Kwankwaso Atiku Abubakar Party New Nigeria Peoples Party PDP Home state Kano Adamawa Running mate Isaac Idahosa Ifeanyi Okowa
President before election Muhammadu Buhari APC Elected President TBD

Background

Rivers State is a highly populated, diverse state in the South South with major oil and natural gas reserves along with industrial centres. Despite its vast oil revenues, the state has several major issues with pirates and illegal oil bunkering gangs in riverine areas while urban areas have overcrowding and intense environmental pollution.^[2][3][4][5]

The 2019 Rivers elections were a continuation of the state PDP's control as the state APC's inability to hold valid primaries led to its disqualification by a court. PDP presidential nominee Atiku Abubakar won the state by 50% and the party gained all three senate seats while also sweeping the House of Representatives elections. On the state level, the PDP also retained its House of Assembly majority and incumbent Governor Nyesom Wike won the gubernatorial election by a wide margin.

Polling

Polling organisation/client	Fieldwork date	Sample size					Others	Undecided	Undisclosed	Not voting
			Tinubu APC	Obi LP	Kwankwaso NNPP	Abubakar PDP
BantuPage	December 2022	N/A	2%	88%	2%	3%	–	2%	2%	0%
Nextier (Rivers crosstabs of national poll)	27 January 2023	N/A	7.7%	77.8%	0.9%	11.1%	–	2.6%	–	–
SBM Intelligence for EiE (Rivers crosstabs of national poll)	22 January-6 February 2023	N/A	9%	65%	1%	18%	6%	2%	–	–

Projections

Source	Projection		As of
Africa Elects^[a]^[6]	Likely Obi		24 February 2023
Dataphyte^[b]^[7]
	Tinubu:	14.49%	11 February 2023
	Obi:	62.46%
	Abubakar:	19.27%
	Others:	3.83%
Enough is Enough- SBM Intelligence^[c]^[8]	Obi		17 February 2023
SBM Intelligence^[d]^[9]	Abubakar		15 December 2022
ThisDay^[e]^[10]
	Tinubu:	10%	27 December 2022
	Obi:	35%
	Kwankwaso:	–
	Abubakar:	15%
	Others/Undecided:	40%
The Nation^[f]^[11]^[12]	Battleground		12-19 February 2023

General election

Results

2023 Nigerian presidential election in Rivers State

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	A	Christopher Imumolen
	AA	Hamza al-Mustapha
	ADP	Yabagi Sani
	APP	Osita Nnadi
	AAC	Omoyele Sowore
	ADC	Dumebi Kachikwu
	APC	Bola Tinubu
	APGA	Peter Umeadi
	APM	Princess Chichi Ojei
	BP	Sunday Adenuga
	LP	Peter Obi
	NRM	Felix Johnson Osakwe
	New Nigeria Peoples Party	Rabiu Kwankwaso
	PRP	Kola Abiola
	PDP	Atiku Abubakar
	SDP	Adewole Adebayo
	YPP	Malik Ado-Ibrahim
	ZLP	Dan Nwanyanwu
Total votes				100.00%
Invalid or blank votes				N/A
Turnout

By senatorial district

The results of the election by senatorial district.

Senatorial District	Bola Tinubu APC		Atiku Abubakar PDP		Peter Obi LP		Rabiu Kwankwaso NNPP		Others		Total valid votes
	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%
Rivers East Senatorial District^[g]	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD
Rivers South East Senatorial District^[h]	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD
Rivers West Senatorial District^[i]	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD
Totals	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD

By federal constituency

The results of the election by federal constituency.

Federal Constituency	Bola Tinubu APC		Atiku Abubakar PDP		Peter Obi LP		Rabiu Kwankwaso NNPP		Others		Total valid votes
	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%
Abua/Odua/Ahoada East Federal Constituency^[j]	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD
Ahoada West/Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Federal Constituency^[k]	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD
Akuku Toru/Asari Toru Federal Constituency^[l]	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD
Andoni/Opobo/Nkoro Federal Constituency^[m]	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD
Degema/Bonny Federal Constituency^[n]	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD
Eleme/Oyigbo/Tai Federal Constituency^[o]	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD
Etche/Omuma Federal Constituency^[p]	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD
Ikwerre/Emohua Federal Constituency^[q]	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD
Khana/Gokana Federal Constituency^[r]	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD
Obio/Akpor Federal Constituency^[s]	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD
Okrika/Ogu/Bolo Federal Constituency^[t]	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD
Port Harcourt I Federal Constituency and Port Harcourt II Federal Constituency^[u]^[v]	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD
Totals	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD

By local government area

The results of the election by local government area.

Local government area	Bola Tinubu APC		Atiku Abubakar PDP		Peter Obi LP		Rabiu Kwankwaso NNPP		Others		Total valid votes	Turnout (%)
	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%
Abua–Odual	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%
Ahoada East	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%
Ahoada West	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%
Akuku-Toru	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%
Andoni	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%
Asari-Toru	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%
Bonny	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%
Degema	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%
Eleme	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%
Emohua	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%
Etche	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%
Gokana	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%
Ikwerre	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%
Khana	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%
Obio-Akpor	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%
Ogba–Egbema–Ndoni	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%
Ogu–Bolo	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%
Okrika	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%
Omuma	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%
Opobo–Nkoro	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%
Oyigbo	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%
Port Harcourt	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%
Tai	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%
Totals	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%	TBD	%

See also

• 2023 Rivers State elections
• 2023 Nigerian presidential election

Notes

1. Africa Elects projections predict the likelihood of a candidate winning a state by categorizing a state as "Safe" for exceedingly likely, "Likely" for somewhat likely, and "Lean" for least likely. If no clear determination could be made, states are categorized as "tossups".
2. Dataphyte projections predict candidates' projected votal shares in each state.
3. EiE-SBM projections predict which candidates will win states.
4. SBM projections predict which candidates will win states or, if no determination could be made, categorizes states as "Too close to call" (TCC).
5. ThisDay projections predict candidates' projected votal shares in each state.
6. The Nation projections predict which candidates will win states or, if no determination could be made, categorizes states as "Battlegrounds."
7. Comprising the local government areas of Emohua, Etche, Ikwerre, Obio-Akpor, Ogu–Bolo, Okrika, Omuma, and Port Harcourt.
8. Comprising the local government areas of Andoni, Eleme, Gokana, Khana, Opobo–Nkoro, Oyigbo, and Tai.
9. Comprising the local government areas of Abua–Odual, Ahoada East, Ahoada West, Akuku-Toru, Asari-Toru, Bonny, Degema, and Ogba–Egbema–Ndoni.
10. Comprising the local government areas of Abua–Odual and Ahoada East.
11. Comprising the local government areas of Ahoada East and Ogba–Egbema–Ndoni.
12. Comprising the local government areas of Akuku-Toru and Asari-Toru.
13. Comprising the local government areas of Andoni and Opobo–Nkoro.
14. Comprising the local government areas of Bonny and Degema.
15. Comprising the local government areas of Eleme, Oyigbo, and Tai.
16. Comprising the local government areas of Etche and Omuma.
17. Comprising the local government areas of Emohua and Ikwerre.
18. Comprising the local government areas of Gokana and Khana.
19. Comprising the local government area of Obio-Akpor.
20. Comprising the local government areas of Ogu–Bolo and Okrika.
21. Together comprising the local government area of Port Harcourt.
22. These two constituencies are within a single LGA. As this table does not differentiate between intra-LGA results, these figures are for the entire LGA which is the same as the data for both constituencies.

References

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