The election had on February 27 been declared inconclusive, with INEC noting that elections didn’t take place in parts of Njaba LGA.
Ugonna Ozurigbo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been declared the winner of the February 25 House of Representatives election conducted in Nwangele/ Nkwerre/ Isu/ Njaba Federal Constituency of Imo State.
The election had on February 27 been declared inconclusive, with INEC noting that elections didn’t take place in parts of Njaba LGA.
Ozurigbo, the PDP candidate, had challenged INEC's decision to declare the election inconclusive, stressing that his margin of votes of lead was higher than the number of Permanent Voters Cards collected in areas the election didn’t take place.
However, after the reviews of the contentious issues, the Independent National Electoral Commission collation officer for the federal constituency, Prof Rosetta Okechukwu, declared the PDP candidate the winner of the election.
Prof Rosetta announced the results at the collation office at Nwangele Local Government Area on Friday.
She added that the PDP candidate scored 19,971 votes, the Labour Party candidate got 9,372 votes to come second while Harrison Nwadike of the All Progressives Congress polled 8,991 votes to come third in the election.