19-year old Miss Aaue Samuel Olubari, a candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has emerged winner of a councillorship seat in Rivers State.
The teenager contested for the councillor of Bangha Ward 7 in Khana LGA in the Rivers LGA election.
Meanwhile, she was formally presented to party leaders and stakeholders by the APC Khana Chairman, Hon. Barile Ebenezer during the ward-to-ward sensitization campaign
NEWSMAXNG reports that the Rivers Local Government election was held on Saturday, August 30, 2025, in 6,866 polling units in the 319 wards.
The election was aimed at producing elected local government chairpersons and councilors and replace the council administrators appointed in April 2025.
This came just six months and two days after the Supreme Court upturned the council elections conducted on October 5, 2024, by the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC).
RSIEC announced the result on Sunday stating that the APC won 20 out of the 23 local government areas in the State, while candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won in Obio/Akpor, Ogba/Egbema/Ndon, and Port Harcourt City.
Candidates of the APC won in Ahoada East, Asari Toru, Ikwerre, Bonny, Degema, Eleme, Etche, Gokana, and Khana LGAs.
Other councils included Ogu/Bolo, Opobo/Nkoro, Okrika, Emohua and Akuku Tor.
The political parties that participated in Saturday’s chairmanship and councillorship elections were: APC, PDP, Labour Party (LP), All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Zenith Party, Accord, African Action Congress, Action People’s Party (APP), and Social Democratic Party (SDP).
Others were: Action Alliance, Youth Party, Young Progressive Party, Action Democratic, New Nigerian People’s Party, National Rescue Movement, and Allied People’s Party.
Miss Olubari’s win is coming as a proof that the ‘Not Too Young to Run Bill’ which was signed into law in 2018 by President Muhammadu Buhari is gradually taking effect.
The now late former president had the bill through the National Assembly in 2017 to alter Sections 65, 106, 131, and 177 of the Constitution.
He noted that he bill was to reduce the age qualification for president from 40 to 30; governor from 35 to 30; senator from 35 to 30; House of Representatives membership from 30 to 25; and State House of Assembly membership from 30 to 25.
