Nollywood actress Mercy Johnson’s husband, Prince Odianosen Okojie, has won the seat for House of Representatives for the Esan South-East/Esan North-East Federal Constituency with a total of 21,764 votes, beating the PDP’s total of 10,007 and the LP’s total of 11,528.
Saturday, February 25, 2023 was Election Day, and the candidate running on the All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket, Okojie, won with 21,764 votes to narrowly defeat the candidate running on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ticket, and In third place was the candidate from the Labour Party. Dr. Victor Imade, who serves as the constituency’s Returning Officer, made the announcement on Sunday.
There has been scores of violence in this year elections, allegations of thug intervention at polling units in Anyigba and Dekina in Kogi East, Mopa in Kogi West, and several areas of Kogi Central, where voting materials were reportedly stolen.
National Assembly elections in Kogi State, the Independent National Electoral Commission pledged to cancel results from regions affected by violence.
In response to these problems, the REC stated, “You know the electoral Law says that where there are disruptions to the process, the result will be cancelled, the very particular units’ results will be cancelled. The issues initially were only in the Kogi East and Central but I can’t tell exactly where and where in the state have been affected until the results are brought by the electoral officers”.
“We understood that because of the violence, those affected areas couldn’t conclude election there. I’m shocked that people can go to that level and disrupt something that everybody should have enjoyed.”
Source – Tru News Report
