Politics
INEC declares Abaribe winner of Abia South election
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday declared the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, as the winner of Saturday’s senatorial elections in Abia South.
The Returning Officer for Abia South National Assembly elections, Prof. Georgina Ugwuanyi, disclosed this at the collation centre in Aba.
Ugwuanyi said she returned to declare results for the election because she was asked by the INEC office in Abuja to announce winners in the election.
READ ALSO: APC, PDP lack ideology to move Nigeria forward —Abaribe
The returning officer had earlier told party agents that the commission had cancelled the election in 108 polling units in the district over alleged irregularities.
She said Abaribe scored 49, 903 votes to defeat the Labour Party candidate, Chinedu Onyeizu, who garnered 43,903 votes.
The Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, polled 28,422 votes in the election.
Join the conversation
Support Ripples Nigeria, hold up solutions journalism
Balanced, fearless journalism driven by data comes at huge financial costs.
As a media platform, we hold leadership accountable and will not trade the right to press freedom and free speech for a piece of cake.
If you like what we do, and are ready to uphold solutions journalism, kindly donate to the Ripples Nigeria cause.
Your support would help to ensure that citizens and institutions continue to have free access to credible and reliable information for societal development.
INVESTIGATION: In Kwara, multimillion-naira milk processing plant is abandoned, converted to a chicken outlet
After the government spent millions of naira to establish a milk processing plant in Kwara State that would provided jobs...
SPECIAL REPORT: For Sokoto communities, promise of healthcare is akin to death sentence
In this story, ABDULRASHEED HAMMAD delves into the dire realities of Primary Health Care services in Sokoto State, shedding light...
ICYMI…SPECIAL REPORT: NNPCL hides behind PIA to frustrate disclosure, accountability
Nigeria’s major oil company, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), in what appears to be a common practice of disregard...
INVESTIGATION: Multi-million naira Ekiti resort center remains uncompleted a decade after
The multimillion-naira project, expected to comprise recreational buildings, now consists of cassava farmland, a bush used for excretion, and a...
SPECIAL REPORT: Torturous experiences of students with disabilities in Oyo tertiary institutions
For students with disabilities in Oyo state-owned tertiary institutions, learning is a torturous and distressing experience, considering the building structures...