The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Umo Eno, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom, as winner of the state governorship election.
INEC Returning Officer for the election, Prof. Emmanuel Adigio, announced the result on Sunday in Uyo, the state capital.
He said Eno won in 29 of the 31 local government areas in the state with a total of 354,348 votes to defeat his top challenger, Bassey Albert of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), who won in two local governments areas, scoring 136,262 votes.
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Akanimo Udofia, came third with 129,602 votes.
The candidates of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and Labour Party scored 12,509 and 4,746 votes respectively.
Adigio gave the total number of registered voters in the state as 2,357,418 out of which 657,959 representing about a quarter were accredited for the exercise.
He disclosed the total valid votes as 656,422 out of which 12,342 were rejected votes.
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