The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared Ben Uwajumogu of the All Progressives Congress the winner of Imo North Senatorial District rerun election held on July 28.
Uwajumogu scored 56,076 votes to defeat Athan Achonu of the Peoples Democratic Party, who scored 43, 815 votes.
Prof. Arinze Agbogu, the INEC Returning Officer for Imo North Senatorial District, who announced the result in the early hours of Friday, said the outcome was a summation of the scores of July 23 and that of July 28.
Uwajumogu, had scored 48,921 on July 23, while Achonu of the PDP scored 40,142 votes, which made INEC to declare the rerun inconclusive.
Agbogu said available data before him showed that Uwajumogu had majority of lawful votes cast and therefore returned elected for the Imo North Senatorial District.
Similarly, INEC declared Nkenna Nzeruo of the APC winner of Oru East State Constituency, while Collins Chiji, also of the APC, was declared winner for Isiala Mbano State Constituency.
The two state constituencies’ elections were equally declared inconclusive due to reported cases of violence that marred the exercise in some communities in the two areas on July 23.
Uwajumogu told journalists in Owerri that he was highly elated over the victory, adding: “My gratitude goes more to Governor Rochas Okorocha, whose structure helped me to win this senatorial election.”
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