The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has won the re-run elections conducted for the State and National Assembly seat seats by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Saturday.
In Akwa Ibom, the re-run election held in Essien Udim for the House of Assembly, House of Representatives and Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District for the Senate.
In the result of the election announced by Returning Officer for the Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District, Prof. Robert Dode on Sunday, Senator Christopher Ekpenyong of PDP was declared the winner of the senatorial rerun poll, with the score of 134,717 votes.
He defeated his main opponent, the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who scored 83,820 votes.
In the same vein, PDP won the House of Representatives seat. The party’s candidate, Mr Nsikak Ekong polled 45,366 votes to defeat Mr Emmanuel Akpan of the APC who scored 22,757 votes.
In the House of Assembly supplementary election, PDP’s Esse Umoh was declared the winner of the poll with 18,999 votes to Mr Nse Ntuen of APC’s 7,108 votes.
But Akpabio and Ntuen had announced their withdrawal from the election a day to the poll over alleged partisanship of INEC and the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mike Igini.
Also, the Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Aliyu Yako, as the winner of Kiru/ Bebeji federal constituency rerun election in Kano state.
He defeated APC’s Abdulmumin Jibrin who is the former chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation.
Abdulmumin Jibrin got 13,507 votes while Aliyu Yako garnered 48,601 voters.
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Meanwhile, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Auwal Jatau of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of Zaki Federal Constituency Election.
INEC’s Returning Officer for the poll, Professor Ahmed Kutama, announced this on Saturday at the collation centre in Bauchi State.
Professor Kutama declared Jatau as the winner of the election after polling a total of 15,405 votes to defeat his All Progressives Congress (APC) rival, Umar Tata, who scored 15,307 votes.
The PDP candidate won the Zaki Federal Constituency seat in the lower chamber of the National Assembly after he polled 782 votes in the supplementary election conducted by INEC.
His APC opponent Tata, however, garnered 401 votes.
The figures were added to the previous results from the February 23, 2019 elections while the candidate with the highest number of votes was declared as the winner.
The electoral body conducted the exercise following an order of the court which sacked Tata and directed that a supplementary election be held in four units of Zaki Federal Constituency.
Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Honourable Abubakar Abdullahi Ahmad, has been declared the winner of the rerun election into Sokoto South/Sokoto North federal constituency.
He defeated the incumbent and candidate of All Progressive Congress (APC) Honourable Bala Hassan, who scored 42,433.
Ahmad, on the other hand, got a total number of 68,985 votes.
