Just In: APC emerges winner of Ebonyi south Senatorial Bye-election

The Independent National Electoral commission, INEC, has declared the Candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, Professor Anthony Okorie Ani, winner of the Ebonyi south Senatorial bye-election held on 3rd February, 2024.

The Returning officer of the election, Dr. Eze Uchechukwu who announced the result Sunday morning at Afikpo Local government collation centre, said the APC Candidate pulled a total votes of 46,270 to defect his closest rival, lfeanyi Eleje of APGA who got 3,513. He announced that other candidates got the following figures; Labour party,LP, Candidate Hon. Linus Okorie, 2,711 votes, while the Peoples Democratic party, PDP, candidate, Barrister Silas Onu 2,783 votes.

Meanwhile, Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Ebonyi State, Chief Stanley Okoro Emegha has applauded the Independent National Electorial Commission, INEC and Security Agencies over the peaceful bye- election in Ebonyi South Senatorial zone. Emegha who stated this at Nguzu Edda, the headquarters of Edda Local Government Area after INEC announced the result described the exercise as transparent, free and fair. On the allegations of irregularities from the opposition candidates of the All Progressive Grand Alliance(APGA), and the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), Ifeanyi Eleje and Barrister Silas Onu respectively, Emegha said the complaints were coming from people who knew they have failed the election. He said, "By what we have seen in the field, we have ample confidence that Professor Anthony Ani is the next senator. In the entire Ebonyi south, there was nothing like election rigging. " I have been calling all the quarters and what I got was impressive that I should talk to INEC people to allow the people that has queued to be accredited and vote because of time, because the time was already up for them. "I told them no that since it is not four o'clock, they should allow them to vote. People turned out massively well. The opposition parties know they are going to fail. there was no snatching of ballot boxes. "There was no vote buying; there was also no irregularities and snatching.The election we know was 100% Emegha said