Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, is declared the winner of Saturday’s presidential election conducted in Enugu State.
He defeated the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar and his counterpart Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress who polled 15,749 and 4772 votes respectively while Obi had 428,640 votes. The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party, Rabiu Kwankwaso, polled a total of 1,808 to record the fifth position. According to the collation officer, and Vice-Chancellor, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Professor Maduebibisi Iwea announced that a total of 2,112,793 voters were registered for the election, while accredited voters for the election were 482,990. Iwe also noted that the total valid votes are 456,424, rejected votes 12,467 and total votes cast were 468,891 respectively. Peter Obi won all 17 local government areas of the state in a landslide.
