Incumbent Governors Ugwuanyi, Ayade Lose Senatorial Bids

Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and his Cross River state counterpart, Ben Ayade have lost their senatorial bids.

Okey Ezea, the Labour Party Candidate, has been declared winner of the election held in Enugu North Senatorial zone on Saturday.

The result of the election was announced by the returning officer, Prof. Chukwuemeka Ubaka, early Monday morning.

He said Ezea polled 104, 492 votes while Ugwuanyi of the PDP garnered 46, 948 votes.

The APC candidate, Eze Simon came third with 6,816 votes.

Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade has been defeated in the Saturday’s National Assembly election.

The incumbent Senator representing the Northern Senatorial District of the state inthe National Assembly, Sen Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe was re-elected.

Senator Jarigbe who contested under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, garnered 76,145 to defeat governor Ben Ayade of the All Progressives Congress who polled 56, 595 votes in the exercise.

Declaring Sen. Jarigbe winner of the exercise in the early hours of Monday, the returning officer, Dr. Emmanuel Emanghe who spoke on behalf of Independent National Electoral Commission INEC thanked stakeholders for their peaceful conduct

Emanghe also lauded all security agents for giving the needed security support which invariably led to successful and credible elections.