Magnus Abe of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has won the Saturday rerun election in Rivers South-East senatorial district.
He was declared winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission returning officer on Sunday evening.
He scored a total of 125,938 votes to defeat Olaka Nwogu of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who garnered. 25,394 votes.
In his victory speech, he urged his opponent and Governor Nyesom Wike to join hands with him to enable him give quality representation to the senatorial district.
