– The outcome of the Imo rerun has been announced in the wee hours of July 29, Friday
– APC wins Imo north senatorial, 2 state constituencies
Most careless and inciting statements are made in political campaign grounds
NAN reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced Ben Uwajumogu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of Imo North senatorial district rerun poll held on July 28.
Uwajumogu received 56,076 votes and defeated Athan Achonu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who has 43, 815 votes.
Arinze Agbogu, the INEC officer, who announced the outcome in the early hours of July 29, said the results were a summary of scores of July 23 and that of July 28 exercise.
On July 23 Uwajumogu had scored 48,921 while Achonu of the PDP received 40, 142 votes which forced INEC to announce the election inconclusive.
Likewise, the electoral body announced Nkenna Nzeruo of the APC winner of Oru East state constituency, though Collins Chiji also of APC was announced winner for Isiala Mbano state constituency.
Uwajumogu told reporters in Owerri that he was highly overjoyed over the victory, continuing “my gratitude goes more to Gov. Rochas Okorocha whose structure helped me to win this senatorial election’’.
After the emergence of Ben Uwajimogu as Okigwe North Senatorial district it seems that chances of Senator Ekweremadu to continue as the deputy Senate president are slim.
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