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Chinedu Nwoko, popularly known as Ned Nwoko and the husband of Nollywood actress Regina Daniels, has been declared the winner of the Delta North Senatorial District seat in Delta, Nigeria. The election took place on Saturday, and Mr Nwoko garnered a total of 92,514 votes to emerge victorious.
Mr Nwoko defeated his opponents, Mr Kennedy Kanma of the Labour Party (LP) who scored 86,121 votes, and the incumbent and candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Peter Nwaoboshi, who polled 36,816 votes. The Returning Officer, Dr Josephine Anene-Okeakwa, announced the results at the INEC collation centre in Oshimili South Local Government Area in Asaba on Monday.
In a related development, Ndudi Elumelu, the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, representing Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency on the platform of PDP, lost his seat to Mr Ngozi Okolie of the Labour Party.