Tony Okafor, AwkaThe Independent National Electoral Commission has declared Chief Victor Umeh of the All Progressives Grand Alliance the winner of the January 13 Anambra Central Senatorial rerun election. Ngige had asked his supporters to boycott the election, saying he had written to INEC to inform it of his withdrawal from the race. A court earlier disqualified the Peoples Democratic Party which had won the election in March 2015 from fielding a candidate in the rerun. Ngige, the APC candidate, was second with 975 votes while the Progressive Peoples Alliance came third with 116 votes. The Resident Electoral Commissioner of INEC in Anambra, Dr. Nkwachukwu Orji, thanked voters, election officials, observers and journalists for contributing to the success and peaceful conduct of the election.

Source: Punch January 14, 2018 23:15 UTC