Imo Governorship First Election Result has emerged.
Truetells Nigeria reports that first results has to trickled in from the ongoing Imo Governorship Election 2023 taking place in twenty-seven (27) Local Government Areas (LGAs), 4,758 polling units (PU) in 305 registration areas.
INEC put the number of registered voters for the election at 2,419,922 but only 2,318,919 collected their permanent voter cards (PVCs) and are eligible to vote in the election on Saturday. The registered voters are 6.5 percent more than the 2,272,293 recorded for the 2019 elections in the state.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the ongoing governorship election in Imo State in the South-East region, has secured its first polling unit victory.
From the polling units’ results that have started trickling in, the PDP won in the Community School, Obodo, Araimo Ward in Ikeduru Local Government Area of the State, after polling a total of 77 votes to defeat the
All Progressives Congress (APC) which scored 17 votes and the Labour Party which got four votes.
The PDP governorship candidate in the state, Samuel Anyanwu, when he cast his vote at his polling unit 012, Ama Imo Community Primary School in Ikeduru LGA, said he was hopeful of winning the election.
Anyanwu told journalists and election observers that if the election was largely peaceful, he would definitely emerge the winner.
“Honestly everything is getting calm. About in seven wards, ballot boxes have been carted away. That does not stop me from winning.
“INEC said that it will not count any votes in any place where there were records of violence. If the election is free and credible, I will win the elections.
“I am not bothered about the snatching of ballots because INEC said that any places where there are incidences of violence would not be counted,” Anyanwu said after casting his vote.
