A former member of the Home of Representatives, Linus Okorie, who represented Ohaozara, Onicha, and Ivo Federal Constituency within the Nationwide Meeting from 2011 to 2015, has emerged because the candidate of the Labour Celebration.
Okorie secured the LP candidacy within the primaries performed, starting with the primary main held on the Amuro/Mgbom Neighborhood Main Faculty subject in Afikpo, the headquarters of the Senatorial District.
Saying the outcomes, the Chairman of the Electoral Committee, Comrade Ayo Olorufemi, said that Hon Linus Abaa Okorie obtained 40 votes, whereas Nwabueze Ogo Eze obtained 10 votes, and Fred Okereke obtained 7 votes.
Within the 2023 normal election, Okorie contested for a similar senatorial seat however misplaced to the previous Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, who later resigned to change into the Minister of Works.
In the meantime, a 60-year-old businessman, Mr Nwabueze Nwachukwu, additionally emerged from the second main, reportedly held at an unknown location within the state.
Nwachukwu, the proprietor of Abuson Accommodations in Abakaliki, garnered fifty votes out of the fifty-seven solid, securing the place because the consensus candidate for the election, whereas Linus Okorie obtained 4 votes.
The Returning Officer, Mr. Ifeanyichukwu Nwibo, thanked the delegates for his or her peaceable conduct in the course of the main election.
In his acceptance speech, Nwabueze expressed gratitude to God for his victory, emphasizing that he’s really ready to symbolize Ebonyi South Senatorial Zone on the Nationwide Meeting if elected on the third of subsequent month.
The Chairman of the Electoral Committee, Comrade Ayo Olorufemi, who declared Okorie because the winner, talked about that three aspirants participated within the main election.
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