Governor Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has won the Saturday’s gubernatorial election in Imo State.
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, announced this on Sunday in Owerri.
The State Returning Officer in the exercise, Prof Abayomi Fasina, who is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State, said the governor got 540,308 votes to defeat other candidates.
INEC announced that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Samuel Anyanwu, came a distant second with 71,503 votes, while the Labour Party candidate, Athan Achonu, came third with 64,081 votes.
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