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YPP Wins 4 Reps, Assembly Seats In Akwa Ibom, Anambra

by Iniobong Ekponta and Okechukwu Obeta
1 year ago
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Young Progressives Party (YPP) has won three House of Representatives and one state assembly seats in the rerun and bye-elections held on Saturday in Akwa Ibom and Anambra states.

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The polls were marred by pockets of violence in Ikono/Ini federal constituency of Akwa Ibom State leading to the cancellation of the exercise in two units in Ikono and Ini local government areas.

The winners are Hon. Emmanuel Ukpong-Udo, who was returned for a second term by defeating the candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Glory Edet and Moses Essien (YPP), who floored PDP’s Obong Godwin Ekpo to clinch the Ibiono Ibom State constituency seat.

In Anambra State, the YPP candidate for Nnewi-North, Nnewi-South Ekwusigo federal constituency, Hon Peter Uzokwe defeated the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate, Hon Uchenna Elodimuo in the election.

Also, the YPP candidate for Orumba-North/Orumba-South federal constituency, Hon Chinwe Nnabuife, won the rerun election with a total of 14,496 votes to defeat her PDP opponent, Hon Okwudili Ezenwankwo who scored 13,087 votes.

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In the Akwa Ibom State, Mr Nabie Jude, the collation officer for the House of Representatives rerun, said the YPP candidate polled 24,050 votes to beat his closest challenger Edet, who got 17,232 votes.

Jude, therefore, declared that, “Emmanuel Ukpong-Udo of the YPP having satisfied the requirements of the law is hereby declared the winner and returned elected.”

Ukpong-Udo had moved from the PDP to the YPP to pursue his second term bid in the 2023 elections following his failure to secure the PDP ticket.

In the Anambra contest, Uzokwe polled a total of 25,518 votes to emerge winner while the APGA candidate, Elodimuo scored 25,412 votes.

With the outcome of the rerun election, Uzokwe will now replace Elodimuo who had been in the House of Representatives after the February 25, 2023 general election until the Appeal Court nullified his election and ordered a rerun election in five polling units in Nnewi-North council.

Uzokwe and his party (YPP) had filed a petition at the Election Petitions Tribunal challenging the outcome of the earlier poll wherein he complained of irregularities during the main election.

Curiously, the senator representing Anambra South senatorial district, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, has described the rerun elections as a clear proof that he commands a strong political support base in the state.

Ubah, who has since defected from the YPP to the All Progressives Congress (APC), claimed responsibility for the victory of the YPP candidates.

In a reaction to the outcome of the poll, Ubah said despite the power of incumbency of Governor Chukwuma Soludo and his party and APGA, the YPP candidates won the two House of Representatives seats that were contested.

He said, “The state government sent down seven commissioners and other government officials to Nnewi for that election for APGA. Their purpose was to intimidate us but we floored them.”

 


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