INEC releases final names of Rivers governorship candidates [FULL LIST]

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has released the final list of governorship candidates for Rivers State.

This is contained in a document released by the commission on Saturday ahead of the 2027 general elections.

The electoral body named Chinda Kingsley Ogundu as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

It also listed Dumo Lulu-Briggs as the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, candidate as well as Gabriel Pidomson Baritulem as the candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC.

Below is the full list:

Chibuzor Israel Rain — Action Alliance (AA)

West Ivy — Action Alliance of Nigeria (AAN)

Gabriel Pidomson Baritulem — African Democratic Congress (ADC)

Lawson Anyanate Angel — Action Democratic Party (ADP)

Chinda Kingsley Ogundu — All Progressives Congress (APC)

Idoniboye-Obu Omangima — All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA)

Whyte Churchill Dagogo — Action Peoples Movement (APM)

Atata Okechukwu Kenneth — Action Peoples Party (APP)

Benjamin Abednego Oli — Boot Party (BP)

Warigbani Ezekiel Zebulun — Democratic Leadership Alliance (DLA)

Boms Chima Ernest — Labour Party (LP)

Dumo Lulu-Briggs — Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC)

Opusonju Silva — National Democratic Party (NDP)

Pepple Wari Dienye — National Network for Progressive People (NNPP)

Minaibim Harry — National Rescue Movement (NRM)

Ejekwu Samuel Soni — Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)

Kieghe Nature Dumale — Peoples Redemption Party (PRP)

Ben-Gurion J. Peter — Social Democratic Party (SDP)

Hart Victor Godwin — Zenith Labour Party (ZLP)