The incumbent Governor of Imo State and the governorship candidate of All Progressive Congress(APC) Owelle Rochas Okorocha has emerged the winner of the Imo State Governorship election after a re-run on Saturday, April 25th 2015.
He won in 20 out of the 23 LGAs in Imo; polling 31,326 votes. His total vote tally stood at 416,996 votes out of the total 806,764 votes cast in the election. His closest rival was Emeka Ihedioha of PDP who polled 320,705 votes and Capt. Emmanuel Ihenacho of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) who came a distant third with 28,434 votes.
Similarly, in Abia State, INEC also declared the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Okezie Ikpeazu, the winner of the Abia State governorship election. Mr Ikpeazu polled 264,713 to defeat the candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, Alex Otti, who polled 180,882 votes. The results were declared in the early hours of Sunday after the supplementary election of Saturday by the various returning officers.
Congratulations to Rochas and Ikpeazu!!
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