The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared Chike Okafor of the All Progressives Congress , the winner of Okigwe South federal constituency election .
The announcement is coming two weeks after the electoral umpire had conducted a supplementary election in the federal constituency on March 9 and abandoned the collation of results .
A winner did not emerge during the first ballot on February 23 .
Announcing the results on Sunday , the Returning Officer , Prof C. I Duruigbo said that the APC candidate who is a serving member of the House of representatives polled 23 , 815 votes to defeat his closest rival , Emeka Nwajiuba of the Accord party who scored 21 , 454 votes .

According to the Returning officer , Action Alliance candidate got 2, 549 votes while Jonas Okeke of the Peoples Democratic Party garnered 14 , 621 votes to come third.
Okafor was a former commissioner for finance during Governor Rochas Okorocha ’ s first term .