Abia North: Kalu defeats Philip Nto, gets APC Senate ticket 

Senator representing Abia North Senatorial District, Orji Uzor Kalu, has won the All Progressives Congress, APC, senatorial superior election, defeating his lone challenger, Philip Nto.

Kalu scored 65,651 votes against Nto, a lecturer astatine Michael Okpara University of Agriculture (MOUAU), Umudike, who scored 2,103 votes.

The nonstop superior election, conducted on Monday across the 5 section authorities areas and 57 wards of Abia North Senatorial District, recorded monolithic information by enactment members and ended successful a sweeping triumph for the erstwhile Senate Chief Whip.

Details of the results announced by the party’s returning serviceman for the senatorial district, and released by the APC Primary Election Committee, showed that the workout covered each 57 wards crossed the district.

Announcing the results on Monday in Umuahia, Chairman of the Abia North Senatorial National Assembly Primary Election Committee, Mr. Chinedu Christian Kanu, confirmed that the workout was successfully conducted crossed the territory ...