Imo: It Is A Landslide Victory For LP’s Obi; Ihedioha Admits Defeat; Agbaso Rejoices

By Charles Igbo

Inspite of the alleged manipulation of votes in Imo State, Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, emerged the winner in a landslide.

In the result announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,  Obi polled a total number 352,904 votes to beat the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, and that of the main opposition, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar to a distant second and third places.

While Tinubu scored 66,171 votes, Atiku surprisingly scored 30,004 votes.

Acknowledging the massive victory of the LP, former Governor of the State, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, said, before the announcement: “Everybody knows that the Labour Party won overwhelmingly in Imo. I would have loved PDP to win, but Labour won overwhelmingly and we accepted the result until they (apparently APC) began manipulations.:

Rejoicing over the victories of the Party, especially, in Imo, where he is the Leader of Obi’s Presidential Campaign, Chief Martin Agbaso said: “I rejoice with Imo people. I rejoice with our Party, and I rejoice with our Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi for the myths he has broken. It will never be the same in Nigeria’s political architecture”