The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has declared Gabriel Pidomson, a former Secretary to the Rivers State Government, as its candidate for the 2027 governorship election in the state.
Pidomson emerged as the winner in the governorship primary election conducted on Friday and Saturday, May 22 and 23 across all the 319 wards of Rivers State, using the Option A4 voting system.
In the exercise, which was supervised by the ADC National Election Committee across all the 23 Local Government Areas of the state, Pidomson polled 112,086 votes to defeat five other aspirants.
Carol Obaro, chairman of the ADC Primary Election Committee in Rivers State, announced the results at the end of the collation of votes at the party secretariat in Port Harcourt on Saturday night.
Obaro said: “Gabriel Pidomson having the highest score of 112,068 votes has satisfied the requirements of the ADC and the constitution and is hereby declared the winner of the primary election and is returned elected, as the ADC gubernatorial candidate in Rivers State this day, May 23, 2026.”
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Sekonte Davies came a distant second with 16,872 votes; Farah Dagogo, a former governorship aspirant in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), scored 2,369 votes, Leloonu Nwibubasa came fourth with 1,476 votes, Henry Ogbonna got 546 votes and Allen Ezekiel Hart polled 268 votes.
Pidomson, in his acceptance speech, described his emergence as “not a personal victory, but a sacred trust handed to us by
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