2023 Elections: Labour Party unseats Ndudi Elumelu, reps minority leader in Delta

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2023 Elections: Labour Party unseats Ndudi Elumelu, reps minority leader in Delta 

The minority leader of the House of Representatives, Ndudi Elumelu has lost his lost re-election in the lower legislative to Labour Party (LP) in Delta State.

Elumelu, who contested on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lost to Ngozie Okolie of the LP.

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Kenneth Ibe, the returning officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission, announced the development on Monday while announcing the result for Aniocha/Oshimili federal constituency in Delta state.

Okolie polled 53,879 votes to defeat Elumelu, who got 33,456 votes.

Also, other lawmakers who lost their seats include Ajibola Basiru, spokesperson of the senate.

Basiru was seeking another tenure to represent Osun central senatorial district on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Also, Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue, lost his senatorial bid to Titus Zam, the APC candidate.

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