Mr Hope Uzodinma, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, has been announced winner of the Imo State Governorship elections.
The incumbent was announced the winner in each of the 27 local governments at the INEC collation centre in Owerri, the Imo State capital.
Governor Hope Uzodinma won the Imo governorship election after he defeated his opponents in all the 27 local government areas of Imo State.
Mr Uzodinma contested against 17 other candidates in Saturday’s election. His two main challengers, candidates of the PDP and LP, have, however, alleged fraud and called for total cancellation of the election.
According to INEC, the number of registered voters in the state for the poll was 2,419,922 with 2,318,919 Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) collected.
At the end of the announcement of local government results at 08:30 a.m. on Sunday, the Returning Officer, Abayomi Fasina, vice chancellor of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Ekiti State announced that the collation centre would go on an hour break and reconvene to formally announce the winner.
Uzodinma won with 540,308 votes.