The off cycle governorship elections in Imo, Bayelsa and Kogi states lived up to their billing. After what expectedly turned out to be the battle of guns, vote-buying and mass thumbprint of ballot papers, Hope Uzodimma, the incumbent governor of Imo State and candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), was pronounced winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Usman Ododo, candidate of the ruling party prevailed in Kogi, while the incumbent governor of Bayelsa, and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Douye Diri barring last minute drama, is looking poised to hold off APC’s Timipre Sylva, in what was a heated battle.
In Imo, the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Prof. Abayomi Fashina, who was the state Returning Officer declared Uzodimma re-elected on Sunday morning at about 10 am after over eight hours of collation of local government results.
