The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, as the winner of the state governorship election held on Saturday.
The state Returning Officer for the election, Prof. Abayomi Fasina, who is also the Vice-Chancellor, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State, announced the results on Sunday morning at INEC’s state collation centre in Owerri, the state capital.
He declared Uzodimma of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the election with 540,308, votes while Samuel Anyanwu of the Peoples Democratic Party came a distant second with a total of 71,503 votes.
Athan Achonu of the Labour Party polled 64,081 votes to come third in the election.
Anthony Ejiogu of the All Progressives Grand Alliance garnered 6,392 votes to come fourth and Jack Ogunewe of the Action Alliance came fifth with 5,756 votes.
The state’s Returning Officer said, “I, Prof. Abayomi Fasina, I was the Returning officer for the Imo state governorship election held on November 11, 2023. That the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Good Hope Uzodimma, having scored the highest number of votes and satisfied the requirements of the law, is hereby declared the winner of the election and returned elected.”
The results announced by INEC showed that Uzodimma swept all the 27 Local Government Areas of the state.
With this result, Uzodimma will be sworn – in for a second term in office on January 14, 2024.
Earlier, the State Agent of the LP, Callistus Ihejiagwa, was beaten and bundled out of the state Collation centre after he protested the results announced by the Local Government Areas Retuning officers.
He said that the results were manipulated in the favour of the APC candidate.
The state Agent of the PDP, Kissinger Ikeokwu, immediately left the collation centre.
However, PDP and LP had on Saturday night called for an outright cancelation of the poll.
The PDP candidate, Samuel Anyanwu, in a press conference, said that the election was rigged in the favour of Uzodimma.
Also, the deputy governorship candidate of the LP, Tony Nwulu, said that the security agents provided security for INEC staff and APC members to rig the poll.
He said that the position of his party was for INEC to cancel the election.
A breakdown of the collated results is as follows:
Owerri North LGA
Accredited voters: 18,398
APC – 8,536
LP – 4,386
PDP – 3,449
Valid votes – 17,440
Total votes cast – 18,016
Oru West LGA
Accredited voters: 42,965
APC – 38,026
LP – 1,867
PDP – 987
Total valid votes – 41,373
Total votes cast – 42,318
Njaba LGA
Accredited Voters: 12,098
APC – 8,110
LP – 995
PDP – 2,404
Valid votes – 11,736
Total votes – 12,030
Owerri Municipal LGA
Accredited voters: 11,110
APC – 5,324
LP – 2,914
PDP – 2,180
Valid votes – 10,813
Votes cast – 11,054
Nwangele LGA
Accredited voters: 33,259
APC – 29,282
LP – 895
PDP – 2,132
Valid votes – 32,597
Votes cast – 32,959
Orsu LGA
Accredited voters – 19,139
APC – 18,003
LP – 813
PDP – 624
Valid votes – 19,589
Votes cast – 19,795
Okigwe LGA
Accredited voters: 63,935
APC – 55,585
LP – 2,655
PDP – 1,688
Valid votes – 62,970
Total votes cast – 63,935
Onuimo LGA
Accredited voters: 18,405
APC – 13,434
LP – 1,753
PDP – 2,676
Valid votes – 18,240
Total votes cast – 18,276
Ideato South LGA
Accredited voters: 21,935
APC – 16,891
LP – 1,649
PDP – 2,469
Valid votes – 21,370
Total votes cast – 21,650
Ngor-Okpala LGA
Accredited voters: 22,111
APC – 14,143
LP – 2,716
PDP – 3,451
Valid votes – 21,492
Total votes cast – 22,003
Oru East LGA
Accredited voters: 74,324
APC – 67,315
LP – 3,443
PDP – 2,202
Valid votes – 74,286
Total votes cast – 74,290
Isu LGA
Accredited voters: 15,974
APC – 11,312
LP – 1,253
PDP – 2,508
Valid votes – 15,776
Total votes cast – 15,932
Ahiazu Mbaise LGA
Accredited voters: 16,097
APC – 8,369
LP – 2,214
PDP – 3,507
Valid votes – 15,353
Total votes cast – 15,878
Aboh Mbaise LGA
Accredited voters: 16,084
APC – 9,638
LP – 2,455
PDP – 1,724
Valid votes – 15,415
Total votes cast – 15,790
Nkwerre LGA
Accredited voters: 26,993
APC – 22,488
LP – 1,320
PDP – 2,632
Valid votes – 26,764
Total votes cast – 26,906
Owerri West LGA
Accredited voters: 16,296
APC – 9,205
LP – 2,597
PDP – 3,305
Valid votes – 15,712
Total votes cast – 16,223
Isiala Mbano LGA
Accredited voters: 15,911
APC – 10,860
LP – 2,419
PDP – 1,659
Valid votes – 15,202
Total votes cast – 15,531
Obowo LGA
Accredited voters: 22,214
APC – 17,514
LP – 3,404
PDP – 712
Total valid votes – 21,907
Total votes cast – 22,171
Ezinihitte Mbaise LGA
Accredited:16,971
APC – 8,473
LP – 3,332
PDP – 2,737
Valid votes – 16,282
Oguta LGA
Accredited voters: 64,260
APC – 57,310
LP – 1,941
PDP – 2,653
Valid votes – 63,675
Total votes cast – 63,947
Ikeduru LGA
Accredited voters: 33,662
APC – 22,356
LP – 1,377
PDP – 7,258
Valid votes – 32,183
Total votes cast – 32,712
Ehime Mbano LGA
Accredited voters: 13,027
APC – 6,632
LP – 4,958
PDP – 681
Valid votes – 12,484
Total votes cast – 12,782
Orlu LGA
Accredited voters: 49,229
APC – 37,614
LP – 2,424
PDP – 3,690
Valid votes – 48,027
Total votes cast – 48,386
Ohaji Egbema LGA
Accredited: 21,366
APC – 14,962
LP – 1,506
PDP – 3,694
Valid votes – 20,755
Total votes cast – 21,249
Ideato North LGA
Accredited voters: 9,609
APC – 5,271
LP – 1,522
PDP – 2,062
Valid votes – 9,161
Total votes cast – 9,550
Ihitte Uboma LGA
Accredited voters: 17,537
APC – 11,099
LP – 2,766
PDP – 3,077
Valid votes – 17,358
Total votes cast – 17,537
Mbaitoli LGA
Accredited Voters – 24,186
APC – 12,556
LP – 4,007
PDP – 5,343
Valid votes 23,014
Total votes cast 23,986
