Even be­fore re-elect­ed Chief Sec­re­tary of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Orville Lon­don had com­plet­ed his vic­to­ry speech last night, Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er, chair­man of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress, said he ac­cept­ed the re­sult of the PNM land­slide vic­to­ry.

Pre­lim­i­nary re­sults gave the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment, led by Lon­don, a land­slide vic­to­ry with TOP leader Ash­worth Jack be­ing de­feat­ed by the PNM's Shel­don Cun­ning­ham in his Prov­i­dence/Ma­son Hall/Mo­ri­ah elec­toral dis­trict. The T&T Guardian re­port­ed a week ago that the PNM was ex­pect­ed to win by a mar­gin of 11 seats to one.

Con­tact­ed by the T&T Guardian last night, Warn­er said he would have to speak with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and the leader of the To­ba­go Or­gan­i­sa­tion of the Peo­ple, Ash­worth Jack, be­fore he made a com­pre­hen­sive state­ment on the re­sult. Warn­er added, how­ev­er, he per­son­al­ly ac­cept­ed the re­sult. "The peo­ple of To­ba­go have spo­ken and I ac­cept the elec­tion re­sult," he added.