Nigeria, Aug. 31 -- The All Progressives Congress (APC) has swept the polls in Saturday's local elections in Rivers State, according to a report by Punch newspaper.

According to the paper, the APC won in 20 out of the 23 councils, while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won in three.

The paper said the Chairperson of the local election commission in Rivers, Michael Odey, announced the election results on Sunday afternoon in Port Harcourt, and that the suspended Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, lost his Opobo-Nkoro Local Government Area to the APC.

Low voter turnout marred the elections.

Rivers has been a PDP state, but its politics has been greatly controlled by a former governor of the state, Nyesom Wike, a PDP member, w...