The Peoples Democratic Party’s Dr Okeize Ikpeazu has been declared as the winner of the 2015 Abia gubernatorial election.
The official results were declared by the INEC returning officer in the state, Prof. Ozumba at 4:54am Sunday, in Umuahia.
Prof.
Ozumba revealed that Ikpeazu polled a total of 264,713 votes to beat
his closest challenger, the former managing director of Diamond Bank,
Alex Otti of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, who got 180, 882
votes.
Meanwhile in Imo, the All Progressives Congress finally
won a guber position in the South East, as Rochas Okorocha was
re-elected to his position.
Okorocha won convincingly and secured
20 out of the 23 local government areas in the state where the
supplementary election was held, polling a total of 31,326 votes.
The PDP’s Emeka Ihedioha could muster only 13,624 votes.
The outcome of Saturday’s polls maintained the trend of Okorocha’s early lead in the polls.
Ihedioha had trailed Okorocha with 79,525 votes in the original election a fortnight ago.
inconclusive by the returning officer, Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe, two weeks
ago, because the margin of victory between the top two contenders – the
APC and the PDP – was less than the number of registered voters in areas
where elections were not held or were cancelled due to irregularities,
thus necessitating a supplementary election, as required by the
electoral law.
Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe declared Okorocha the winner,
having polled the highest number of votes and having satisfied the
requirements of the law.
a second was Ihedioha with 320,705 and Emmanuel Ihenacho of the All
Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in distant third with 28,434 votes.
that their votes count and the expression of their gratitude in the
works of His Excellency Owelle Rochas Okorocha has been clearly
registered through their votes,” said Alfred Anunugba, the APC agent.
optimistic that we are yet to see the best of Owelle Okorocha at work.
So the Imolites are in for something greater, something more reassuring
and something enduring,” Mr Anunugba added.
Al-Hassan, was defeated by the PDP governorship candidate, Darius
Ishaku, at this year’s governorship re-run election in Taraba state.
The
Imo state governorship election on April 11
experienced some systemic snags, with both major parties exchanging
allegations of widespread rigging, ballot box snatching, violence,
and sundry other electoral offences.
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