Politics

Obi defeats Tinubu, Atiku in Imo with 200,000 margin

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, won last Saturday’s presidential election in Imo State with about 200,000 vote margin.

Obi polled a total of 352,904 votes to defeat his closest challenger, Bola Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who scored 66,171 votes.

Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), came third with 30,004 votes while Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) scored 1,536 votes to come fourth.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday, said 476,730 voters were accredited for the election out of a total of 2,125,446 registered voters in the state.

Out of the total 469,685 votes cast in the state, 459,261 were valid while 10,424 votes were rejected.

Obi has so far won the election in Enugu, Lagos, Delta, Nasarawa, Plateau states, and the FCT.

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