
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.
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