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Umahi wins Ebonyi South Senatorial District seat

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INEC Returning officer, Prof. Augustine Ogugua Egwu of Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu Alike Ikwo, declared Umahi winner of Ebonyi South Senatorial District.

By Jeffrey Agbo

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, as the senator-elect for Ebonyi South.

The governor, who ran for the position on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), scored 28,378 votes to win the election.

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Linus Okorie of the Labour Party (LP) scored 25, 496 votes to come second while Eleje of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) scored 11,398 votes to come third.

INEC Returning officer, Prof. Augustine Ogugua Egwu of Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu Alike Ikwo, declared Umahi winner of Ebonyi South Senatorial District.

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Meanwhile, the lawmaker representing Ebonyi State’s Afikpo North/South federal constituency in the House of Representatives, Iduma Igariwey, defeated his rival in the APC, Eni Uduma Chima.

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Igariwey, a PDP lawmaker, who is the Vice Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation, got 24,649 votes while Chima got 11,296 votes.

The result was announced at the constituency headquarters in Afikpo North.

Igariwey was re-elected for a third term in the House.

The House of Representatives candidate of the Labour Party, Nkemkanma Kama, contesting for Ohaozara, Onicha and Ivo federal constituency was also declared winner.

Kama scored 19921 votes to defeat his closest rival of the APC, Fidelix Igboke who scored 14231, while PDP candidate, Livinus Maker, scored 7506 to come third.

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