Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi State and his Niger State counterpart Abubakar Sani-Bello have been declared by the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) as winners in the senatorial contests in their states.
They both won on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Umahi in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media and Strategy, Chooks Oko on Monday, hailed INEC for ensuring a credible election.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that the governor won the Ebonyi South Senatorial district election in the result declared by INEC on Sunday.
Umahi in accepting the victory declared, “I dedicate this victory to God and pledge to be a senator of all Ebonyi people.”
In the result declared by INEC, Umahi won by polling 28,378 votes.
The INEC Returning Officer for the zone, Prof. Augustine Egwu, announced that Umahi beat nine other contestants to emerge victorious.
Egwu, of the Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo, Ebonyi noted that the governor had satisfied all the requirements by law to be declared the senator-elect of the district.
Mr Linus Okorie of the Labour Party came second with 25, 496 votes while the incumbent Sen. Michael Ama-Nnachi placed third.
Also, INEC has declared Gov. Abubakar Sani-Bello as the winner of Niger South seat at the National Assembly.
INEC Returning Officer, Kolo Zacchaeus, announced the result on Monday in Kontangora.
Zacchaeus said that Sani-Bello scored 100,197 votes to defeat his closest opponent of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Shehu Abdullahi who scored 88,153 votes.
He said that Wali Ibrahim of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) scored 13,886 votes, while Sani Sule of APGA got 2,747 votes and Musa Yakubu of ADC scored 636 votes.
He said that Buhari Haruna of PRP scored 1,597 votes, while Ibrahim Muhammad of NRM scored 307 votes. Adamu Tainmu of ADP got 515 votes.
He said that Sama’ila Yahaya of SDP scored 169 votes, while Yamaha John of ZLP got 937 votes and Mohammed Usman of Accord Party scored 220 votes.
