The Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) has confirmed that several political parties successfully conducted their primary elections on Saturday ahead of the upcoming local government elections.
Commissioner for Political Affairs, Monitoring and Security, Humphrey Nwoke, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday. He added that parties that could not hold their primaries on Saturday completed the exercise on Sunday.
Nwoke further revealed that all political parties have submitted the names of their candidates to the commission.