INEC gives certificates of return to elected 102 senators, 338 Reps today

Independent National Electoral Commission will give certificates of return (CoR) to winners in the February 23 National Assembly elections, today at the International Conference Centre (ICC), Abuja.

According to the INEC, 102 senators-elect will get their certificates by 10am and 338 would-be House of Representatives members will be issued theirs by 2pm.

Going by the list of candidates, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has 63 senators, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has 38 and Youth Progressives Party (YFP) has a seat.

Seven seats have been declared inconclusive and will be contested for during the supplementary election slated for March 23.

For the lower chamber, the ruling party also has the majority with 211 members.  The PDP has 111 members.

Other political parties share the remaining 16 seats -APGA (six); African Democratic Congress (ADC), three; Action Alliance (AA) two and Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), two. African Democratic Party (ADP), Allied Peoples Movement (APM) and Social Democratic Party (SDP) have one slot each.

Twenty-two seats are still up for grabs where elections were declared inconclusive. Make-up polls in the affected Federal Constituencies (excluding in Rivers State) have been fixed for March 23.

Elections were suspended in Rivers State for INEC to review.