Date Published: 05/07/11

Okorocha Wins Imo Governorship Race

Chief Rochas Okorocha

Chief Rochas Okorocha of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, has won the Imo state gubernatorial elections. He defeated the incumbent Governor Ikedi Ohakim to clinch the Governorship position in the keenly contested race.

The final results announced by INEC Saturday morning says, the APGA candidate scored 336,859 votes with incumbent governor Ikedi Ohakim scoring 290,490 votes.

Supplementary governorship election were supposed to be held yesterday in four local councils and one ward in Imo State. However, election was not Elections did not hold in Oguta local govt due to security threat.

The election was contested by 19 candidates in the states.

Prof. Hillary  Odoagah, Vice Chancellor of Michael Opara University and the Retruning office of the state, Umudike announced the result.