The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Tuesday, affirmed Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe winner of the February 25 senatorial elections in Abia South.
The Returning Officer for Abia South National Assembly elections, Prof. Georgina Ugwuanyi, announced this before party agents at the collation centre in Aba.
Ugwuanyi said she had to return to declare the results for the election because she was asked by INEC headquarters in Abuja to announce winners in the election.
Ugwuanyi had earlier told party agents that a substantial number of polling units totaling about 108 had irregularities requiring a reschedule of the Abia South election.
She, however announced that the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate, Enyinnay Abaribe got the highest number of ballots in the election, having scored 49, 903 votes.
She further announced that candidate of the Labor Party (LP), Chinedu Onyeizu, scored 43,903, while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Governor Okezie Ikpeazu scored 28,422 votes.
Ugwuanyi, therefore, declared APGA’s Abaribe winner of the senatorial election.