March 31, 2015 : Chuks Ohai
The Peoples Democratic Party candidate for Orlu (Imo West) senatorial district, Senator Hope Uzodinma, has been declared the winner of the senatorial election held on Saturday.
He garnered 154,605 votes to beat the All Progressives Congress candidate, Osita Izunaso, who got 70,843 votes.
The All Progressives Grand Alliance candidate, ThankGod Eziani and Chief Idika Jafac, came third and fourth with 28,753 and 14,491 votes respectively.
Declaring the result at the INEC Office in Owerri, the Returning officer, Prof. Christian Eze, stated that he had to announce the result in Owerri because of the crisis that surrounded the collation of the results in the INEC office in the Orlu zone.
The Federal University of Technology, Owerri, lecturer, who showed journalists the torn and squeezed result sheets, said that they were able to extract the results from the parts of the squeezed and torn papers.
Eze added that one of his co-workers was badly beaten by those he described as “APC boys,” who he said saw the election result going against their candidate.
The senatorial results of the other two zones in the state (Owerri and Okigwe) have also been declared with the PDP candidates, Chief Samuel Anyanwu (Owerri) and Chief Athan Achonu (Okigwe) as winners.
Meanwhile, the results of the presidential election from the 20 local government areas in the state so far released, had the PDP in the lead with the APC only winning in Ideato South LGA.
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