The Governor of Enugu State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has lost his senatorial bid to the Labour Party (LP) candidate Okechukwu Ezea.
Ugwuanyi, who is rounding off his second term as governor, is the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the Enugu North Senatorial District election held on Saturday 25 February.
The Returning Officer for the election, Chukwuemeka Ubaka, announced the result at the collation centre of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Nsukka Local Government Area headquarters on Monday at about 5: 20 a.m.
Mr Ezea, the LP candidate, polled a total of 104,492 votes to defeat Mr Ugwuanyi of the PDP, who came second with 46,948 votes.
The All Progressives Congress candidate for the district, Ejike Eze, garnered 6,816 votes to come a distant third.
The INEC Returning Officer said Mr Ezea was declared the winner in the exercise because he “justified all the requirements of the law” having scored the highest number of votes in the election.
The Labour Party candidate won in Nsukka, Igbo-Eze South, Igbo-Eze North, Igbo-Etiti, Uzo-Uwani and Udenu, the six local governments that made up the senatorial district.
PDP has not lost any election in Enugu since 1999, thus, the defeat of Ugwuanyi was considered significant.
The seat for the senatorial district is currently occupied by Chukwuka Utazi who stepped down for Ugwuanyi before the primary election of PDP last May.
Labour Party had also won the House of Representatives candidate for Nsukka-Igbo-Eze South Constituency.
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