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Just In: INEC Declares Uzodinma Winner
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JUST IN: INEC Declares Uzodinma Winner
Chioma Chimamanda Owerri
The National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared Governor Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of Saturday’s governorship poll in Imo State.
The commission said the APC candidate scored 540,308 votes to defeat his closest challenger of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Samuel Anyanwu.
INEC Returning Officer, Abayomi Sunday, vice chancellor of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Ekiti State, declared the winner Sunday morning at the state collation centre in Owerri.
Mr Sunday said the APC candidate scored 540,308 votes to defeat his closest challenger of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Samuel Anyanwu, who scored 71,503 votes while the Labour Party candidate, Athan Achonu, came third with 64,081 votes. None of the other 15 candidates had up to 10,000 votes.
“Hope Odidika Uzodinma having satisfied all the requirements of law and scored majority of the lawful votes, is hereby declared elected,” Mr Sunday declared.
