Peter Obi who is the presidential candidate of the Labour party has been declared the winner of the presidential election conducted in Ebonyi state on Saturday, February 25. According to the results released by INEC, Obi secured 259,738 to beat APC’s Bola Tinubu who secured 42, 402 votes. PDP’s Atiku Abubakar came third with 13, 503 votes.
The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso, came a distant fourth with 1,661 votes.