Atiku Defeats Buhari In 13 Out Of 16 LGAs In Imo, So Far

 

 

Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is currently leading in the Saturday’s presidential election in Imo State.

 

The election took place in all the 27 local government areas in the state.

 

Mr Abubakar, in the results of the 16 local government areas so far announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, is currently winning in 13.

 

The results show that Mr Abubakar so far got a total of 185,709 votes while Muhammadu Buhari of APC secured 92,702 votes.

 

The results indicate that Mr Abubakar won in Oguta, Isu, Nwangele, Oru West, Njaba, Owerri North, Ezinnihitte, Onuimo, Ohaji/Egbema, Owerri Municipal, Orlu, Aboh Mbaise and Owerri West LGAs.

 

Mr Buhari won in only three of the LGAs, including Rochas Okorocha’s Ideato South, where he secured his highest votes.

 

The results show that Mr Buhari is still about 30,000 votes shy of the total he garnered from the state in 2015.

 

Then, Goodluck Jonathan won him with a wide margin of 559,185.

 

Here are results from the 16 LGAs

 

 

PDP – 2996

 

APC – 2296

 

 PDP – 8673

 

APC 6487

 

 

APC – 10, 383

 

PDP – 6407

 

 

PDP – 7803

 

APC – 4233

 

 

APC – 6161

 

PDP – 5819

 

 

PDP – 9293

 

APC – 4831

 

 

APC – 20, 663

 

PDP – 8844

 

 

PDP – 8721

 

APC – 6610

 

 

PDP – 17, 136

 

APC – 1730

 

 

PDP – 21, 606

 

APC – 3188

 

 

PDP – 5716

 

APC – 2431

 

PDP – 9397

 

APC – 7449

 

 

PDP – 12, 529

 

APC – 1397

 

 

PDP – 11, 292

 

APC – 5875

 

 

PDP – 16,002

 

APC – 5789

 

PDP – 33, 476

 

APC – 5789