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BREAKING: PDP Wins Imo Supplementary Election

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has declared Jerry Alagbaoso of the Peoples Democratic Party the winner of the supplementary election held on Saturday in  in Imo State.

The Returning Officer of the election, Emma Anakwuba, announced the results and returned the PDP candidate under tight security at INEC’s office in Owerri on Tuesday.

This declaration is coming three days after political thugs invaded INEC’s collation centre in collation, tore the election results, accusing the electoral umpire of compromising the exercise.

INEC had already collated results of 14 out of 18 polling units before the hoodlums struck.

The results of the remaining four polling units were collated at the INEC’s headquarters in Owerri on Tuesday and thereafter a winner was announced.

The returning officer said that the PDP candidate polled 22,475 votes to emerge the winner.

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According to Anakwuba, the All Progressives Congress candidate, Eddy Iheanacho got 20, 814 votes while All Progressives Grand Alliance got 5,099 votes.

He said, “That Jerry Alagbaoso of the PDP having scored the highest number of votes and satisfied the requirements of the law is returned elected.”

The winner, who was first elected into the house of representatives 2011 was reelected in 2015, was declared winner again in 2019.

An appeal court in Owerri partially canceled his victory in 2019 and ordered a supplementary election in 18 polling units in the federal constituency.

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