Orji Uzor Kalu comes third in Abia North senatorial election

Media mogul and former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, who contested as the Abia North senatorial candidate of the Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, has lost his bid, as he came a distant third going by the complete results of the March 28 National Assembly election released yesterday by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

According to the comprehensive result sheet released by the Public Relations Officer, PRO, of INEC in Abia State, Edwin Inabor, Kalu came a distant third behind Mao Ohuabunwa of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and David Ogba of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA.
Ohuabunwa secured 40,027 votes to win the elections, ahead of David Ogba of APGA who got 28, 055 votes and Kalu with 27, 002 votes.

 

Before the result was released, the PPA, the APC and APGA, had questioned the possible outcome of the results, alleging widespread manipulation and rigging.

Kalu, who previously claimed victory in the election, had in a petition to INEC dated March 29, 2015 alleged flagrant breach of Electoral Act 2010 in the conduct of the elections.
The petition, which was signed by Peter Njoku, and copied to the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, rejected the possible outcome of the election on the grounds of failure of card readers, intimidation, and harassment of voters, snatching of ballot boxes, delay in the announcement of results at the various polling units, and gross mutilation of result sheets. It also demanded the cancellation of the exercise and called for a re-run.
The petition partly reads, “In the light of the above highlighted, we demand the outright cancellation of the elections and order a re-run of the exercise as allowing the outcome of the election will amount to daylight robbery of the people’s right to choose the representatives of their choice.”

 

In the results for the federal constituencies equally released, the PDP clinched all federal constituency seats, except Aba North and South federal constituencies which were won by APGA
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