Rochas Okorocha Makes A Second Coming

Incumbent Governor Rochas Okorocha has won the peaceful contested Saturday’s governorship election in Imo state.

Gov. Rochas Okorocha

With results from 26 of the state’s 27 local governments collected, Mr. Okorocha has clearly defeated his main challenger, the Peoples Democratic Party’s Emeka Ihedioha by 66,086 votes. Mr. Okorocha has so far scored 371206 votes while Mr. Ihedioha, the deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, has 305,320 votes in the bag.

The only outstanding local government – Oru East – has only 65, 735 registered votes.

With his victory, the APC has succeeded in holding on to the only state it controls in Nigeria’s South-East geo-political zone. Three of the remaining states (Enugu, Abia and Ebonyi) in the region are controlled by the PDP while one (Anambra) has remained firmly in the grip of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) for more than nine years.