The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the re-run governorship election in Delta State, Emmanuel Uduaghan, has been declared winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Mr. Uduaghan won in 14 of the state’s 25 local government areas, thus meeting the criteria of recoding victory in two-third of the local councils in the state.

His closest opponent and governorship candidate of the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP), Great Ogboru, won 11 councils. But the margin of victory is more pronounced in the volume of votes, as Mr. Uduaghan almost won twice the number of votes won by Mr. Ogboru.

However, Mr. Ogboru’s supporters protested the preliminary results released by INEC.

The protesters, who besieged the INEC office in Asaba, alleged that the exercise was rigged by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and that the results being released were unacceptable to them.

The DPP supporters could not gain access into the electoral commission’s premises due to the heavy presence of policemen and soldiers, and no official of the commissioner attended to them.

At about 11.15am, shortly before the protesters arrived, Mr. Ogboru had walked into INEC’s office, conferred briefly with his agents, and hurried out.



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