Imo Gov Poll Declared Inconclusive

>Photo: former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos and now Vice-Chancellor of Federal University, Ndufe-Alike, Ebonyi State, Prof. Oye Ibidapo-Obe

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.
--PUNCH