PDP wins federal constituency seat

Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party Atigwe Simon as the winner of the rerun election for the Udenu/Igbo-Eze North Federal Constituency of Enugu State.

INEC returning officer, Professor Nwachukwu J. Obiaku from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka declared the results of the controversial poll. The election was characterized by missing result sheets, and declaration the results of the election in an undisclosed location. He, however, declared that the election was peaceful, free and fair.

This is coming after the voters protested against the election following the replacement of the original result sheets meant for the conduct of the by-elections by the Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission in the state, Dr Chukwuemeka Chukwu.

Eyewitness said, hundreds of supporters of the Labour Party in the state had on Saturday morning protested, demanding that the result sheets be provided before the commencement of the election at Robinson Street, Uwani, Enugu, for the Enugu South Urban state constituency, while, the REC, Dr Chukwuemeka Chukwu, came and addressed the agents of the various political parties that the original result sheets had been lost and that he had provided an alternative