2023 supplementary elections: INEC releases results for Bayelsa, declares APC’s Idris as Kebbi Governor-elect
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Sunday, declared Rodney Ambaiowei of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as winner of the Southern-Ijaw Federal Constituency supplementary election in Bayelsa.
According to the result declared by the returning officer, Prof. Christopher Onyema, the PDP candidate, Ambaiowei, polled a total of 13,992 votes to defeat the incumbent member of the House of Representatives, Preye Oseke, of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who scored 12,992 votes.
Also, INEC has declared the All Progressives Congress candidate, Godknows Obein, as winner of the Ogbia Constituency 2 supplementary election into the Bayelsa House of Assembly.
The result declared by the returning officer, Prof. Johnson Ohakwe, indicates that Obein registered 5,291 votes to defeat incumbent legislator, Munalayefa Gibson, of the PDP, who had 4,342 votes.
With the outcome, the Peoples Democratic Party will be having 17 seats in the seventh Bayelsa House of Assembly while the All Progressives Congress will be having five and the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has two.
Meanwhile, also on Sunday, Dr Nasiru Idris of All Progressives Congress (APC) was declared as Governor-elect of Kebbi State in the re-run election conducted, Saturday.
INEC had declared the March 18 governorship election in the state inconclusive and subsequently rescheduled last Saturday, April 15 to conclude the process.
A rerun election was held on Saturday in 142 polling units spread across 20 of the 21 Local Government Areas of the state.
The final result was announced at the INEC headquarters in Birnin Kebbi by the Returning Officer, Prof. Yusuf Sa’idu of Usmanu Danfodio University, Sokoto.
He said Idris polled 409,225 votes to defeat his closest contestant, retired Maj.-Gen. Aminu Bande of PDP who scored 360,940 votes, while Alhaji Udu Idris of People’s Redemption Party, scored 3,103 votes.
The returning officer explained that the total votes cast stood at 800,560, out of which valid votes were 781,478, while 19,082 votes were rejected.
“I, Prof. Yusuf Sa’idu, the Returning Officer of the governorship election held on April 15, 2023, declare that Nasiru Idris of APC, having satisfied the requirements of the law and scored the highest number of votes, is hereby returned elected as Governor of Kebbi,” he added.
