Mr Akpabio, who contested the election under the platform of the All Progressives Congress , defeated his closest rival, Emmanuel Enoidem of the Peoples Democratic Party .The APC has also reportedly won two out of the four federal constituencies in the Akwa Ibom North-West District, according to the results announced so far by the Independent National Electoral Commission on Sunday.
Mr Akpabio, a former governor of Akwa Ibom State, won the 2015 senatorial election in the district as a candidate of the PDP, but later, in August 2018,He contested again for the senatorial election in 2019 as the APC candidate, but lost to Christopher Ekpenyong, a former deputy governor of Akwa Ibom, who was the PDP candidate in the election.
Mr Akpabio’s victory in the Saturday’s election came as a shock because of how the PDP had been entrenched in Akwa Ibom politics and how his kin and party chieftainsMr Akpabio’s rival in the election, Mr Enoidem, was a close ally when
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