Hope Uzodimma, governor of Imo, says the result of the
presidential election will not determine the outcome of the November 11
governorship election in the state.
Speaking on Thursday in an interview with Channels
Television, Uzodimma said the All Progressives Congress (APC) has performed
well in the state.
In the presidential election in Imo, Peter Obi of the Labour
Party (LP) recorded a landslide victory as he polled 352,904 votes.
His closest challenger, Bola Tinubu of the APC, scored
66,171 votes while Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) placed
third with 30,004 votes.
The outcome of the presidential poll in Imo has sparked
speculations that the governorship election may prove challenging for Uzodimma,
who is the APC candidate.
Speaking on the development, the Imo governor said the APC
won majority seats in the national and state assemblies.
“First of all, my party did not lose an election in Imo
state,” he said.
“If I understand what the situation is — we had an election
on February 25 in Imo state.
“We (APC) produced two senators out of three and four
members of the house of representatives out of seven concluded seats.
“The next week, which was March, we produced 25 members of
the house of assembly out of 27 seats. Is that how to lose an election?
“APC is a party to beat in Imo. APC had done so well that
there is already an exodus from other political parties to our great party.
“Presidential election in Nigeria is not calculated or used
to assess governorship election.
“In a presidential election, the result is declared
according to votes in all states of Nigeria. In the number of votes cast in
Nigeria, APC won.
“In the governorship election, the result will be based on
votes cast in Imo state and until that is done, nobody is going to beat his
chest to tell you what is going to be the result.”
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Imo people, i do not when governorship election is coming up in the state but you guys owe Nigerians one more debt namely vote out APC, vote away Hopeless Uzodinma, chase away this anti-imolite. Just come together, repeat what you did for Labour, game over for Uzodinjo
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