The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom State has won in all the re-run elections held in the state on Saturday, March 12, 2016.
The re-run was held in Akwa Ibom North East Senatorial District (Uyo Senatorial), where Mr. Bassey Albert polled 256, 110 votes to beat his closest rival Mr. Emmanuel Obot of APC who scored 36, 775 and Mr. Ubong Edet of Accord party scored 6, 368 votes.
Also, in the five state constituencies, the PDP won in all. These are Etinan, Ibesikpo/Asutan, Oron/Udung Uko, Itu and Ikot Ekpene/Obot Akara state constituencies.
In Etinan, Aniefiok Dennis of the PDP, polled 10,977 votes to defeat his closest rival Unyime Ekwere of APC who scored 1,780 votes; while Sunday Akpan of Accord and Nse Ubeh of Labour party scored 26 and 29 votes respectively.
In Ibesikpo/Asutan, Aniekan Uko of the PDP won with a total votes of 10, 288, his APC contender, Mr. Gabriel Akpan scored 1,955 votes; while Utibe John of Accord Party and Linda Sunday of PPA scored 13 and 12 votes respectively.
The situation was not different in Oron/Udung Uko where the candidate of the PDP Effiong Bassey won with 7,625 votes beating the Labour Party candidate Mr. Jerimah Okon who scored 17 votes. In Itu, the candidate of the PDP Mr. Idongesit Ituan of the PDP polled 12, 043 votes to beat Idongesit Ekpaya of the APC who scored 2, 938.
The Ikot Ekpene/Obot Akara situation was not different as the PDP continued in its winning spree as it candidate Mr. Idongesit Ntekpere scored 23, 900 votes to beat his closest rival of the APC Mr. Augustine Mbeh of APC who polled 2,428 votes.
In a statement, issued by the state Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr. Gabriel Ada, he said the election was conducted in a peaceful and orderly manner, saying that, the commission is grateful to the people of the state.
According to him, the Certificates of Return shall be issued by the commission according to the law.
