The People’s Democratic Party,PDP, on Saturday swept the Senate, House of Representatives and state Assembly in Akwa Ibom Rerun elections held in Essien Udim Local Government Area.

The returning officer for the Akwa Ibom Northwest rerun election, Prof. Robert Dode of the University of Uyo, announced that Senator Christopher Ekpeyong of the PDP won.

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He said that Mr Ekpeyong polled 134,717 votes while Sen. Godswill Akpabio of the APC, who had earlier withdrawn, scored 83,820 votes.

Also the returning officer of INEC for the House of representatives, Prof. Idara Akpabio of the University of Uyo, declared Mr Nsikak Ekong of the PDP as winner having polled 45,366 votes.

Mr Emmanuel Akpan of the APC scored 22,757.

In the State House of Assembly supplementary elections, the returning officer, Prof. Victor Ebong of the University of Uyo declared Esse Umoh of PDP winner, having polled 18,999 votes to defeat Mr Nse Ntuen of the APC, who scored 7,108.

The Akwa Ibom Rerun polls were ordered by Appeal court in Calabar for the Akwa Ibom North-West (Ikot Ekpene) Senatorial District, Essien Udim Federal Constituency and Essien Udim State Constituency.

Akwa Ibom State’s Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mr Mike Igini, praised security agencies for their role.

He said in a statement: “The security agencies, despite the initial challenges did a commendable job with satisfactory professionalism, particularly in the full implementation of the designed model for securing the collation processes and centres.

“This ensured that polling unit results were not compromised or swapped with pre-written results to supplant the will of the people.”