The population of Rivers State is about 6.5million of which 1.8million are non-indigenous people who live, work and play in the State, and are contributing daily to the development of the State without being adequately recognized or organized by the political system, especially in Port Harcourt City. Most of these 1.8million non-indigenous residents live in the Greater Port Harcourt Area of Port Harcourt, Obio/Akpor, Eleme, Okrika, Oyigbo and Bonny LGAs. Of these 1.8m, about 1.6million of of voting age and are also very active in the socio-economic live of the State in general, and the urban areas of the state in particular.
Although, the socio-cultural history of Rivers State embraced the socio-political integration and upward mobility of non-indigenous people, especially in the Riverine areas of the State, with some of these becoming Kings and Chiefs, the modern democratic politics in Rivers State has not fully integrated and functionalized the mobilization of the non-indigenous voting block.
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