The Independent
National Electoral Commission Returning Officer for Imo State, Prof. Oye
Ibidapo-Obe, has declared the 2015 governorship election in the state
inconclusive.
He made
the declaration before journalists and agents of the various political parties
that were involved in the election after the collation of results at the office
of INEC in Owerri, the state capital, on Sunday.
Ibidapo-Obe said the election was inconclusive because
the total number of votes in the areas where the election did not take place
was higher than the margin between the two leading candidates, the candidate of
the All Progressives Congress, Governor Rochas Okorocha, and his Peoples
Democratic Party’s counterpart, Emeka Ihedioha.
Protests about widespread irregularities and
manipulation of results in some wards in the state were also some of the
reasons why the results of some polling units were cancelled.
In the result announced by the Returning Officer,
Okorocha, polled 385,071 votes, while Ihedioha, got 306,142 votes.
Ibidapo-Obe said supplementary election would soon
hold in the affected areas.
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