Emeka Ihedioha, a former deputy speaker of the House of Representatives has been declared the winner of the Imo governorship election.
Ihedioha, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was declared governor-elect by the returning Officer for the election, Professor Francis Ogbonnaya Otunta at 11:57 pm on Monday.
Ihedioha got 273,404 votes, while Uche Nwosu of the Action Alliance (AA) and son-in-law of Governor Rochas Okorocha came second with 190, 364 votes.
Senator Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) came third with 96,458 votes.
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Both Uzodinma and Nwosu belonged to the APC until a nomination battle pulled them apart. A simple arithmetic showed that the number of votes jointly polled by both Uzodinma and Nwosu is higher than Ihedioha’s vote.
The governor-elect, Ihedioha took to Twitter early Tuesday to thank his people and to work to ‘rebuild’ the state.
Thank you Ndi Imo.
It’s a victory for all of us!
I will not fail!
My word is my bond. pic.twitter.com/nvbcLQ9n6B
— Emeka Ihedioha (@EmekaIhedioha) March 11, 2019
