
TRIBUNAL AFFIRMS UZODIMMA’s ELECTION AS IMO GOV, DISMISSES LP’s PETITION
Hope Uzodimma was duly elected to the Imo State governorship, as affirmed by the Imo State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal on Friday.
The Labour Party (LP) and its candidate for governor, Athan Achonu, had their case denied by the tribunal that rendered its decision in Abuja.
The three-member panel of the tribunal found that Uzodimma’s election as governor of Imo State met substantially with the provisions of the Electoral Act, according to a unanimous ruling issued by Justice Oluyemi Akintan-Osadebay.
The tribunal further held that the Labour Party in its petition failed to prove the allegation of overvoting and non-compliance to the Electoral Act.
Last year, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Uzodimma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the November 11 governorship election in Imo State.
Uzodimma scored 540,308 votes to defeat his closest challenger, Senator Samuel Anyanwu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who scored 71,503 votes while Achonu, came third with 64,081 votes. None of the other 15 candidates had up to 10,000 votes.
Dissatisfied with the result, Achonu had approached the court to sack the governor, alleging electoral malpractices in some parts of the state.
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