Imo guber: Uzodinma on track to be declared winner after taking all 27 LGAs

Hope Uzodinma, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Imo governorship election, is only an official announcement away from being declared winner of the poll.

With collation drawing to a close in Owerri, the Imo state capital, Uzodinma scored the majority of votes cast in all 27 LGs to floor Samuel Anyanwu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Athan Achonu of Labour Party (LP).

Some of the LGs Uzodinma won are Ideato South, Onuimo, Okigwe, Orsu, Ihitte Uboma, Mbaitoli, Owerri municipal, Nkwerre and Ahiazu Mbaise.

Uzodinma who became governor in 2020, was battling for re-election with Achonu and Anyanwu.

Earlier, a fight broke out between party agents at the collation centre for the Imo gubernatorial election.

The violence resulted in the party agent of the LP being beaten and bundled out of the hall while the PDP agent was ushered out.

The party agents had alleged that some of the results were “manufactured”.

Abayomi Fashina, the state returning officer, had urged the agents to return to their seats and accused them of disrupting the collation exercise.