Governorship Polls… Ododo Wins Kogi, Hope Returns In Imo

The candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi and Imo states, Alhaji Usman Ahmed Ododo and Senator Hope Uzodimma, were yesterday declared winners of the governorship elections held in the two states on Saturday.

LEADERSHIP reports that off-cycle governorship elections were conducted in three states in Nigeria – Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa States.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) returning officer in Kogi State, Prof. Johnson Urame, announced that the candidate of the APC, Ododo, got 446,237 votes to beat the Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate, Muritala Yakubu Ajaka, who polled a total of 259, 052 votes to come second in the exercise.

The governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Dino Melaye, came third with 46, 362 votes.

In Imo State, the resident electoral commissioner (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commissioner, Prof Abayomi Fashina, also declared Governor Uzodimma winner having polled the highest number of votes in all the 27 local government areas of the state.

Uzodimma emerged winner of the election with 540,308 votes, Samuel Anyanwu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) came a distant second with 71,503 votes, followed by Athan Achonu of the Labour Party with 64,081 votes.

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The candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi and Imo states, Alhaji Usman Ahmed Ododo and Senator Hope Uzodimma, were yesterday declared winners of the governorship elections held in the two states on Saturday.

LEADERSHIP reports that off-cycle governorship elections were conducted in three states in Nigeria – Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa States.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) returning officer in Kogi State, Prof. Johnson Urame, announced that the candidate of the APC, Ododo, got 446,237 votes to beat the Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate, Muritala Yakubu Ajaka, who polled a total of 259, 052 votes to come second in the exercise.

The governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Dino Melaye, came third with 46, 362 votes.

In Imo State, the resident electoral commissioner (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commissioner, Prof Abayomi Fashina, also declared Governor Uzodimma winner having polled the highest number of votes in all the 27 local government areas of the state.

Uzodimma emerged winner of the election with 540,308 votes, Samuel Anyanwu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) came a distant second with 71,503 votes, followed by Athan Achonu of the Labour Party with 64,081 votes.

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However, Labour Party’s candidate Athan Achonu and his PDP counterpart, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, have both called for the cancellation of the entire exercise.

The state chairman and agent of the Labour Party, Barr Callistus Ihejiagwa, was beaten and thrown out of the collation centre following his strong objection to the results announced by the local government area returning officers. The PDP agent, Barr Kissinger Ikeokwu, stormed out of the collation centre visibly angry.

The deputy governorship candidate of Labour Party, Hon Tony Nwulu, held a press conference on Saturday night and called for a total cancellation of the exercise on the grounds that the whole election had been compromised.

Nwulu said throughout the 27 LGAs, the ruling APC, in connivance with INEC officials and backed by security operatives, subverted the will of the people.

According to him, APC members engaged in vote buying, intimidation of voters, snatching of electoral materials and the diversion of the poll materials to the homes of individuals and the council area headquarters for manipulations.

Nwulu said, “There was no election in Imo State on Saturday. What happened was the diversion of the electoral materials to the homes of people and the LGA council headquarters. In all this, the police, army, DSS provided security to the actors.

“They came with huge sums of money to the polling units for vote buying but the Imo people rejected them. They now resorted to snatching of electoral materials, diversion of the electoral materials to homes of individuals and to the LGA headquarters where they are currently rewriting the results.

“In all these things, the police, army, DSS are providing security to the APC members and staff of INEC in these disgraceful acts. We have all the records. We are putting Nigerians on notice that there was no election in Imo State on Saturday.”

The PDP candidate, Senator Anyanwu, in a separate press conference, said that INEC and security agents failed in their constitutional responsibility to deliver credible elections to the people of the state.

Instead, according to him, the security agents protected INEC staff as the APC members rewrote results.

Anyanwu said that he himself and his party, the PDP, would not accept anything other than a total cancellation of the poll.

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