The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has won last Saturday’s election in Ebonyi State.
Obi polled 259,738 to defeat closest challengers, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), according to the result declared by INEC.
Tinubu polled 42,402 votes to come second, while Atiku polled 13,503 to come third in Ebonyi. The candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso came a distant fourth with 1,661 votes.
A total of 337,887 voters were accredited out of the 1,563,529 registered voters in the state, according to INEC.
The electoral body said a total of 337,341 votes were cast and out of that number, 325,351 votes were recorded valid while 11,990 were rejected.
Final results, according to the INEC, were as follows:
REG. VOTERS 1,563,529
ACCREDITED VOTERS 337,887
APC 42,402
APGA 4,120
LP 259,738
PDP 13,503
NNPP 1,661
VALID VOTES 325,351
REJECTED 11,990
TOTAL VOTES CAST 337,341
