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Before the elections, there were two court rulings for and against the conduct of the elections by the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission led by Justice Adolphus Enebeli (retd.).

In the build-up to the election, the two main political parties, the All Progressives Congress faction in the state led by Tony Okocha and the Peoples Democratic Party under the leadership of Aaron Chukwuemeka had pulled out of the election citing a lack of due process.

The two parties loyal to the FCT minister alleged that the RSIEC did not invite them for a stakeholders meeting where the election and other issues were agreed.

As the elections approached, Okocha, in two media engagements, expressed confidence that the election would not hold after he filed a suit restraining INEC from releasing the 2023 voters register to RSIEC.

But the RSIEC Chairman, Enebeli, said he had since collected the state voters register from INEC, though the latter denied officially releasing the document to the state electoral umpire.

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