The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party (LP) have rejected the outcome of Saturday’s governorship election in Imo State after Governor Hope Uzodimma was declared winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday.
The electoral body had announced Uzodimma’s re-election having won in all the 27 local government areas of the state with a total of 540, 008 votes to clinch a second term in office.
The State Returning Officer for the election, Prof Abayomi Fasina, who is also the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oye, Ekiti State, also announced that Sen. Samuel Anyanwu of the PDP got 71,503 votes while the Athan Achonu of the LP scored 64,081 votes.