The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has officially declared Governor David Nweze Umahi the winner of the Ebonyi South senatorial election.
Declaring the result in Afikpo, headquarters of the zone, the Returning Officer, Prof. Augustine Ogugua Egwu of Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu Alike Ikwo, announced that Umahi of the All Progressive Congress (APC) polled 28,378 to beat his closest rival of the Labour Party (LP) Linus Okorie who polled 25, 496.