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Saturday, 25 April 2015

Okorocha, Ikpeazu, Ishaku Win in Imo, Abia, Taraba

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Imo State governor and candidate of All Progressives Congress, Chief Rochas Okorocha, was early this morning declared winner of the governorship election in the state by the Independent National Electoral Commission. In the other two states where supplementary governorship elections also held yesterday, the governorship candidates of Peoples Democratic Party in Abia and Taraba states, Dr Okezie Victor Ikpeazu and Mr. Darius Ishaku, respectively, also won, going by results collated and declared by INEC at the time of going to press. This followed the addition of their scores from yesterday’s supplementary elections to the figures they had garnered after the main election on April 11, which INEC had declared inconclusive.
Okorocha scored 416,996 votes to defeat the PDP candidate, Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, who polled 320,705 votes. Okorocha was declared winner by the State Returning Officer, Professor Ibidapo Obe, who is Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Ikwo, Ebonyi State.
In the senatorial election in Delta Central, Ighoyota Amori of PDP won the election, polling 115, 000 votes to defeat his closest opponent, Ovie Omo-Agege, of Labour Party, who scored 53, 000 votes. Amore was declared the senator-elect. Amori polled 2, 981 votes in Ughelli South, while Omo-Agege polled 681 votes. In Sapele, Amori got 8, 864 votes, Omo-Agege got 1, 541. In Udu, the PDP candidate got 9, 194 votes, while his LP challenger got 3, 956 votes. In Uvwie, Amori got 4, 819 votes, while Omo-Agege got 2, 366 votes. In Okpe, the PDP candidate scored 8, 613, while the LP candidate got 2, 022 votes. In Ethiope West, Amori got 172, while Omo-Agege had 12 votes. Also in Ethiope East, Amori scored 14, 142 votes, while Omo-Agege scored 7, 168 votes.
See More at:http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/okorocha-ikpeazu-ishaku-win-in-imo-abia-taraba/207796/

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