A former Chief of Staff to Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, Ugwumba Uche Nwosu, has emerged as the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the 2019 governorship election.
Nwosu polled 269, 524 to defeat eight other contestants.
Similarly Okorocha defeated Hope Uzodinma and Osita Izunaso to emerge as the candidate for the Imo West (Orlu zone) senatorial election.
Okorocha polled 141, 117 votes to defeat Uzodinma who got 1359 votes and Izunaso with 24 votes.
Also For Imo East (Owerri zone), Engr. Emma Ojinere was declared winner with 41,562 votes while Okorocha Commissioner for Information, Prof. Nnamdi Obiareri defeated the incumbent senator from Imo North (Okigwe zone), Mr. Benjamin Uwajumogu by 67, 438 to 5, 743 votes.
Chairman of the Imo State APC governorship primaries, Brig. Gen. Ibrahim Agbabiaka (rtd), who made the announcement of the results at about 3.30 am Sunday morning, said that all the nine aspirants contested in the governorship election.
Nwosu closest rival was Chuks Ololo, who polled 6428 votes while the Deputy Governor. Eze Madumere got 2, 646 votes.
Agbabiaka lauded the conduct of the members of the party, who painstakingly went through the exercise, despite the hiccups that attended the first one.
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