Labour Party has been declared winner of Saturday’s senatorial election in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Ireti Heeba Kingibe of the LP defeated incumbent Senator Philip Aduda of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) elected into the Senate in 2011.
Independent National Electoral Commission returning officer for the Federal Capital Territory, Prof. Sani Saka, said the LP candidate polled 202,175 votes to defeat her main challenger, Aduda, who scored 100,544 votes while APC’s Zakari Angulu secured 78,905 and candidate of the NNPP got 3,802 votes. The returning officer said only result of Abaji area council remained cancelled now as he certified Bwari area council result after rejecting, it earlier — citing irregularities.
It was however reported that major party agents at the collation centre refused to assent the result.
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