The senator for Enugu East, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani has lost his re-election bid to the Labour Party candidate, Sir Kelvin Chukwu.
Nnamani, a former governor of Enugu and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, got 48,701 votes to lose to Chukwu, who got 69,136 votes.
Recall that Chukwu replaced his late brother, Oyibo Chukwu, who was murdered a few days before the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections.
Nnamani was elected Governor of Enugu State in the 1999 Enugu State gubernatorial election from 1999 to 2007.
He subsequently served as a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Senator for Enugu East Senatorial District from 2007 to 2011 and was re-elected in 2019.
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