Obi wins in 23 LGs in Imo, 25 in Delta States
The Labour Party Presidential Candidate Peter Obi has been declared winner of the Saturday’s presidential election in Imo State sweeping 23 out of 27 Local Government Areas of Imo State.
Declaring the results at INEC State Collation Centre in Owerri the Imo State capital, the State Presidential election collation officer and Vice Chancellor Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Professor Charles Esimone announced that Labour Party Scored 352,904 in 23 Local Government areas followed by APC’s Bola Tinubu who scored 66,171 votes.
Some agents of political parties contested the figures emanating from Oru East, Oru West and Okigwe.
Another point of contest by the agents are in Njaba Local Government area where the electoral officers did not turn in any result without any written documents.
The Commission has completed the collation of results from all 25 Local Government Areas of Delta state for the Saturday Presidential Election with Labour Party polling the highest votes of 341,866 and followed by the Peoples Democratic Party with a total of 161,600 and All Progressives Congress getting a total of 90,183 votes while the New Nigeria Peoples Party got 3,122 votes.
Announcing the total results scored by all the candidates of the 18 political parties, the State Collation Officer for the Presidential Election, Prof Owunari Georgewill says the same result will be presented at national collation centre, Abuja where the ultimate winner of the poll will be declared.
For the State Resident Electoral Commissioner, he advises all stakeholders to take a retrospective look at the roles they played if they did well or not.
He says the commission has learnt some valuable lessons and it hopes to improve its performance when it conduct the governorship and state House of Assembly polls in less than 10 day’s time.
Presidential Election Result Update(DELTA)
Final result of collation from 25 LGAS
—————————
APC – 90,183
LP – 341,866
NNPP – 3,122
PDP – 161,600
Number of accredited voters =667,149
Total valid votes = 615,341
Total rejected votes = 39,309
Total votes cast = 654,650