The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Enugu East LGA, Pst. Beloved-Dan Anike, has been declared winner of Saturday’s local government chairmanship election in the area.
The returning officer, Dr Nelson Ossai, while announcing the result on Sunday said that the PDP candidate scored a total of 116,690 votes to defeat his closest opponent, the candidate of the Labour Party, who scored 9,848 votes.
Ossai added that the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, followed with 3,839 votes to finish third.
According to him, others are APP with 2,224 votes, AA with 2,072 votes, NNPP with 650 votes, Accord with 511 votes and APM with 327 votes.