Paul Osuyi, Asaba

Senator Ovie Omo-Agege of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has retained his seat in the red chamber of the National Assembly after he defeated Mrs Evelyn Oboro of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the Delta Central Senatorial seat in last Saturday’s elections.

However, Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Campaign Council in Delta State and former governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan, did not only lose his senatorial election for Delta South, but failed to deliver APC in his Warri North Local Government Area.

Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, also, lost his local government, Aniocha North, to the PDP.

Meanwhile, the PDP won two senatorial seats with incumbent senators Peter Nwaoboshi and James Manager retaining their seats for Delta North and Delta South, respectively.

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While Nwaoboshi polled 186,423 votes to defeat Doris Uboh of APC, who polled 36,360 votes, to retain the seat for Delta North, Mr. Manager pulled an upset in Delta South by defeating immediate past governor of the state, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan of the APC, who was primed to win going by series of endorsements he enjoyed prior to the election.

Manager, who has been in the red chamber since 2003, scored 258,812 votes, while Uduaghan scored 125,776 votes.

On his part, Omo-Agege defeated Mrs. Evelyn Oboro of the PDP to retain his senatorial seat for Delta Central.

In the House of Representatives election, PDP clinched nine out of the available 10 seats in the green chamber, with House minority leader, Leo Ogor, polling 34,000 to trash Joel Onowakpor of the APC, who scored 23,553 votes.

Like Manager, Ogor, who represents Isoko Federal Constituency, will be serving his fifth tenure in the next dispensation.