The Battle of Awka North and South federal Constituency between the top contenders Hon Maxwell Okoye of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Obi Nwankwo of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) Professional Lilian Orogbu of the Labour party (LP) and Emeka Igwe of the People’s Democrats party (PDP) among others, has been won and lost, from the results at the just concluded general election.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced the final results from Awka North and South, in Amawbia Collection center, with Professor Lilian Orogbu winning with a landslide victory as she recorded the highest total number of votes.
The returning officer of the Commission Mr Uche Nriagu declared the Labour party candidate Lilian Orogbu winner with 29,629 votes , Obi Nwankwo got 18,081 votes while Emeka Igwe got 9,459 against other parties that recorded less number of votes from Awka south council Area.
In Awka North, the Returning officer announced Professor Lilian Orogbu the winner after pulling a total number of 34,713 to beat Obi Nwankwo of APGA with his 24,814 and Emeka Igwe with 12,850, following which Lilian Obiageli Orogbu of the Labour party was declared winner of federal house of representatives Awka North and South.
Professor Orogbu said that the will of the people has been instituted by her victory, though she complained of some sort of manipulation as the results were delayed for 2 days after elections.
Reacting to the win, Orogbu recalled her 6 point agenda, which is to make laws, move motions and bills that will impact the life of the people. She thanked the electorate for supporting her and their mandate and promised quality representation and bring to the people the Change they need.
She urged her contenders to accept the results in good faith as she is willing to work with them and carry everybody along as she is representing both those that accepted her and those that didn’t accept her.
She also called on Independent National electoral Commission (INEC) to improve on the duties, complaining of some indices of underdevelopment in the commission, arriving at the polling units late, BVAS machine capturing failure.
