Two candidates have emerged as winners in the All
Progressives Congress (APC) Primary election for the Imo North
Senatorial District by-election.
The elections conducted by two factions of the party were across
the six local government areas and 64 wards, through the direct
mode of primaries on Thursday.
The parallel results after the conduct of the exercise produced
Ifeanyi Ararume as the winner of one of the APC factions scoring
22,944 votes, while Frank Ibezim emerged winner of the other APC
faction with 13,637 votes.
Both results were announced by the APC Primary election
committee Chairmen, Umar Gana, and Senator Surajudeen Bashir who
monitored the parallel exercise.
Meanwhile, some other aspirants out of the 45 cleared by the
party to contest in the election alleged illegalities in the entire
process.
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The primary election conducted is to enable the party to pick
its candidates ahead of the October 31 legislative by-elections
that will be conducted in some states of the federation.
This follows the death of the Senator who represented the
district, Ben Uwajumogu on December 18, 2019.
Uwajumogu occupied the senatorial seat after the Federal High
Court ordered a rerun election, defeating the candidate of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Athan Achonu.
Mr. Uwajumogu scored 56,076 votes to defeat Senator Achonu who
polled 43, 815 votes.
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