Mark, Ekweremadu return to Senate

President of the Senate, David Mark

Senate President, David Mark; his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu and the Senate Minority Leader, George Akume, have been re-elected into the upper chamber, just as high ranking senators like Smart Adeyemi, Abdul Ningi and Chris Ngige lost their bid to return.

Ngige lost to Uche Ekwunife in Anambra Central; Smart Adeyemi lost to Dino Melaye in Kogi West while Ningi, the Deputy Senate Majority Leader, lost also to the All Peoples Congress candidate in Bauchi Central.

However, Mark who is returning to the Senate for the fifth time scored 99,538 votes to defeat his counterpart in the APC, Daniel Onje, who scored 50,115.


Also, Ekweremadu who is returning to the Senate for the fourth time, was declared the winner of the Enugu West senatorial seat with120,075 out of the 123,286 valid votes cast in the Saturday’s election.

The INEC Returning Officer for Enugu West, Prof. Fab Onah, explained that 10 candidates contested the election with Ekweremadu’s closest rival, Luisa Achieze of the APC, who scored 2,314 votes.

Also, the three senators from Ogun, Oyo and Ekiti have lost the bid to return to the senate while Babafemi Ojudu (Ekiti Central) did not contest. Others, including the Senate Minority Whip, Hosea Agboola (Oyo North), lost the National Assembly election held on Saturday.

Ekweremadu, in a statement on Monday, said his election was a renewal of a political covenant with his people. He commended the electorates for standing by him when the going was tough.
Culled from NTA News Blog