Breaking: PDP’s Emeka Ihedioha defeats Okorocha’s AA, APC
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Mr Emeka Ihedioha, has emerged as the winner of the Governorship election held in Imo State.
The PDP candidate has the highest votes from results of all the 27 Local Governments announced at the collation centre.
His closest opponents are Uche Nwosu of the Action Alliance (AA) and ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Mr Hope Uzodinma.
Collation and announcement of results were earlier abruptly suspended in Imo following violent protests at the INEC collation centre in Owerri on Monday.Trouble started when the returning officer from Ideato South Local Government was asked by the Imo REC, Prof. Francis Ezeonu, to commence the announcement of Ideato South result.No sooner had the returning officer sat down to announce the result than the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) agent, Mr Uche Onyeagocha, and his counterparts, Paschal Onwukaike of Democratic Alternative (DA) and Steve Asimobi of Redemption Party (RP), prostested the announcement of the results from Ideato South.
This development led to serious argument where Onyeagocha alleged that the Ideato South result favoured the Action Alliance candidate with an outrageous figure and as such should not be announced.
Onyeagocha also, while rejecting the announcement of the results, claimed that the PDP and other party agents were intimidated at the Ideato South LGA collation centre and prayed that the REC cancel the result.
In the midst of the violence that ensued, Onyeagocha and the others were arrested by the security operatives present while Ezeonu and the Imo Returning Officer, Prof. Francis Otonta, were whisked away to safety leading to the abrupt stoppage of announcement of results in Imo.
