PDP wins legislative seats in Ebonyi

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won the nine National Assembly seats in Ebonyi State.

They include three senatorial and six House of Representatives seats.

In Ebonyi North, former Governor Sam Egwu polled 78,620 votes to beat his Labour Party (LP) opponent and a member of the House of Representatives, Chief Peter Ogeali, who scored 53,890 votes.

In Ebonyi South, the senator representing the zone, Chief Sonni Ogbuoji, polled 80,753 votes to emerge victorious.

His LP counterpart, Darlington Okereke, got 27,229 votes.

PDP also won in Ebonyi Central where the governor’s son, Nnanna Elechi, contested on the platform of LP and was defeated by Chief Obinna Ogba, a former chairman of PDP.

In Abakaliki/Izzi, the Returning Officer, Dr. Nwali Okata, declared the lawmaker representing the constituency, Chief Sylvester Ogbaga, as the winner.

He said Ogbaga, a PDP candidate, polled 38,240 votes to beat Helen Nwaobasi of the LP, who secured 30,460 votes.

In Afikpo North/South, Chief Idu Igariwey, ex-chairman of Afikpo North, defeated the member representing Afikpo South West, Eni Uduma Chima.

Igariwey of the PDP polled 29,567 votes against the 13,616 votes of Eni of the LP.

PDP also won in Ezza South/Ikwo, Ezza North/Ishielu  and Ebonyi/Ohaukwu.

LP urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel the National Assembly election, describing it as a robbery.

The Deputy Director, Media and Publicity of its Heritage Campaign Council, Chooks Oko, said: “While the people freely went to their polling booths to vote for candidates of their choice, they had their wishes subverted.

“Even when they succeeded in expressing their choice, their wishes were thrown overboard by the rewriting of the results, falsification of figures and brazen announcement of figures that could only have come from the imagination of the Returning officers, as in the case in Izzi, Abakaliki, Ebonyi and other local governments.

“Result sheets were hidden from polling Units. Corps members fraudulently led undiscerning voters. Key INEC responsibilities were given to siblings and cronies of candidates and members of a particular party in Ishielu, Afikpo North and Ikwo councils.  Results were compiled outside the polling units and falsified to the chagrin of the voters.”

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