Democratic Party, Air Vice-Marshal Isaac Alfa (retd), has been declared
winner of Kogi East Senatorial re-run election held on Saturday.
The Independent National Electoral Commission’s Returning Officer for
the election, Prof. Lucky Ovwhasa, said Alfa polled 57, 575 votes to
defeat five other candidates.
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He said that the candidates of Mega People Political Party, United
Progressives Party, KOWA, ACPN and Labour Party scored 1,793, 888, 498,
349 and 11,908 votes, respectively, in the election.
The All Progressives Congress did not participate in the exercise due
to an Appeal Court judgment which prohibited it from fielding a
candidate.
Ovwhasa said the senatorial election was held in 236 out of the 1,080
polling units in the area with 140, 297 voters out of the 643,559
registered voters in the area participating in the election.
Mr. Haruna Idoko of the APC had on Saturday night been declared winner of Idah state constituency re-run election.
According to the Returning Officer of the election, Prof. Femi Ajayi,
Idoko polled 8,346 votes to beat his closest rival, James Ukwubile of
the PDP, who scored 8,274 votes.
The result of Ofu state constituency re-run is still being awaited.
Source: Sahara Reporters
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