Ebonyi guber poll: Umahi retains seat
Umahi of the PDP scored a total of 393,043 votes while his closest rival from the All Progressives Congress came second with 81,703 votes.Announcing the result on Sunday, the state’s INEC Collation Officer, Prof. Frank Chukwuemeka, said that a total of 482,018 votes were gotten as valid votes while 10,084 were rejected votes.
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