BREAKING: INEC officially declares Uzodinma winner of Imo guber election

Governor Hope Uzodimma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been declared as the winner of Saturday’s gubernatorial election in Imo State.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, announced this on Sunday in Owerri.

The State Returning Officer for the election, Prof Abayomi Fasina, who is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State, said the governor got 540,308 votes to defeat other candidates.

According to INEC, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Samuel Anyanwu, came a distant second with 71,503 votes, while the Labour Party candidate, Athan Achonu, came third with 64,081 votes.

 

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