The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Jude Ogbimi, winner of Saturday’s Isoko North Constituency by-election.
According to INEC, eleven political parties contested in the Assembly by-election.
The Returning Officer for the by-election, Professor Christopher Onosemuode of the Federal University of Petroleum Resources Effurun, who announced the result, said MrOgbimi scored 29,421 votes to defeat the candidate of the APC, Emmanuel Tabuko, who polled 2,543 votes to emerge second while the candidate of the ADP, AgoseOgagaoghene, came third with 66 votes.
