Nigeria, Sept. 12 -- A factional spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Darlington Nwauju, has disowned candidates of the party elected in the just concluded chairmanship and councilorship elections in the South-south state.

Mr Nwauju spoke on Thursday night when he appeared as a guest on Channels TV's Politics Today.

PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that the APC won a majority of seats in the 30 August local elections in Rivers State, securing 20 out of the 23 councils, while the PDP won in three.

But Mr Nwauju claimed the 20 candidates elected as local council chairpersons under the APC platform are not members of the party.

"The thing I can say to you now and here is the fact that those persons are not m...