The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State, Samuel Anyanwu, has scored the highest votes in the polling unit of a former governor of the state and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Rochas Okorocha.
Okorocha, who cast his vote in the polling unit earlier on Saturday, governed the state between 2011 and 2019 under the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). He defected to the APC during his second term in office (2013).
The former governor represented Imo West District in the Nigerian Senate under the APC platform between 2019 and 2023.
The PDP candidate at Okorocha’s Polling Unit 002, Ekenta Market Square, Ogboko Registration Centre II, scored 50 votes.
The unit is within Ogboko, a community in Ideato South Local Government Area of the state.
The state governor and the APC candidate in the election, Hope Uzodinma, polled 40 votes while his Labour Party counterpart, Athan Achonu, garnered only 8 votes.
Out of the 1,822 registered voters at the unit, only 102 votes were cast while one vote was voided.
A total of 18 candidates seek to be Imo governor.
