The National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Umuahia has upheld the victory of Senator Orji Kalu representing Abia-North Senatorial district in the February 25 polls.

A three-man panel led by Justice Samson Paul-Gang in its unanimous ruling today dismissed the petition of People’s Democratic Party’s Mao Ohuabunwa and Labour Party’s Nnamdi Iro-Orji for lacking merit.

The court while upholding the victory of Kalu of the All-Progressives Congress, faulted the arguments of both petitioners that the election did not hold in over 120 polling units mainly in Ohafia and Arochukwu Local Government Areas of the zone.

The tribunal also cancelled the petition of the PDP and Labour Party argument that the total number of registered voters in the allegedly affected polling units was far above the margin of win between Kalu and the first and second runners-up.

Kalu who currently presides as the Chairman Senate Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation was declared winner of the February 25 Senatorial poll in Abia-North Senatorial district.