The incumbent governor of Imo State and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Mr Hope Uzodinma, is in an early lead in yesterday’s off-cycle governorship election held in the state.
According to the results so far released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) form its collation centre in Oweri, Uzodinma has so far won in at nine of the 27 local governments areas.
They are Oru West, Njaba, Owerri, Obowo, Nwangele, Owerri Municipal, Orsu, Okigwe and Ideato South local government areas.
With this, the Uzodinma has so far won in one-third of the local governments in the state.
In Oru West, the APC polled 38, 026 votes, the Labour Party (LP) got 1,867, while the PDP had 987 votes.
In Njaba Local Government Area, APC got 8,110 votes, LP 995 and PDP 2,404.
For Owerri North, APC scored 8,536 votes, LP 4,386 and PDP 3, 449.
Obowo Local Government Area results indicate that APC had 17,514, LP scored 3,404 and PDP polled 711 votes.
In Nwangele LGA, APC had 29, 282 votes; LP, 895 and PDP 2,132.
For Owerri Municipal, the APC had 5,324; LP 2,914 while the PDP recorded 2,180 valid votes.
In Orsu LGA, APC garnered 18,003 votes; LP, 813; while PDP had 624.
In Okigwe LGA, the APC had 55,585 votes; LP, 2,655 and PDP, 1, 688.
The ruling APC also emerged victorious in Ideato South where it scored 16, 891; LP 1 recorded 649 and PDP had 2,469.
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