Today Saturday 11 November marks the D-Day when all the candidates contesting in the election will test their popularity.

According to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), 17 candidates on the platforms of different political parties are seeking to govern Imo, however, only four are viewed as the major contenders for the seat.

Hope Uzodinma, the incumbent governor and flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is seeking a second term, making him the candidate to beat.

Others are Samuel Anyanwu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Athan Achonu of the Labour Party (LP), and Lincoln Ogunewe of the Action Alliance (AA).

Uzodinma hails from Imo West (Orlu zone) senatorial district which has 12 LGAs while Anyanwu and Ogunewe are from Ikeduru and Ezinihitte-Mbaise LGAs, respectively — both in Imo East (Owerri zone) senatorial district which has nine LGAs. Achonu, the candidate of LP, is from Ehime-Mbano LGA in Imo North (Okigwe zone) with six LGAs.

Voters Details

APC Candidate: HOPE UZODINMA

Mr Uzodinma will hope to leverage his power of incumbency to ward off threats posed by his opponents. He also has the financial strength to mobilise support for his victory.
As a sitting governor, he is believed to be in control of political structures in the 27 local government areas of the state which could be used to his advantage in mobilising support for his reelection bid.

Also, Mr Uzodinma’s female deputy, Chinyere Ekomaro, may help him garner women’s votes. Women account for over 50 per cent of the total eligible voters in the state.

Mrs Ekomaro hails from Umunoha, a community in Mbaitoli, which is the local government area in the state with the highest number of PVCs (152,371) collected ahead of Saturday’s poll.

The deputy governorship candidate is married to a man from Ikeduru Local Government Area, where Mr Anyanwu, the PDP candidate, also hails from.

PDP Candidate: SAMUEL ANYANWU

Mr Anyanwu, the PDP candidate in the election, is considered a strong contender in the poll. A former PDP national secretary, the candidate is believed to have the required political networks and experience to match Mr Uzodinma’s political strength.

Although the politician lost the PDP governorship primary election in 2019, some residents consider him a better alternative to wrestle power from Mr Uzodinma.

Mr Anyanwu will be looking to climb to the state’s seat of power based on the goodwill of residents of Owerri Zone where he hails from and had represented in the Senate from 2015 to 2019.

Again, as a major contender for the position from Owerri Zone, the former senator may enjoy the sympathy of people who believe that the zone has been marginalised in the power-sharing formula in the state since the return of democratic rule in 1999.

There is clamour among the people of Owerri Zone that Mr Anyanwu deserves to be governor to compensate for the abrupt ouster of the former governor of the state, Mr Ihedioha, who hails from the zone.

More so, the PDP candidate’s promise to tackle the insecurity in the state appears to have resonated with many residents of the state who are desperate to see the end of the insecurity in the state.

However, the PDP candidate may find himself in the crossfire of a crisis ravaging the party in the South-east and the party’s waning influence in region and state by extension.

The PDP recorded three consecutive losses in the 2015, 2019 and 2023 presidential elections in Nigeria.

The Labour Party (LP)’s unprecedented dominance in the South-east during the 2023 general election was a signal that the PDP’s control of the region was over.

Lastly, Mr Anyanwu’s cold war with Mr Ihedioha has punctured his acceptance by some people of the state particularly residents of Owerri Zone who believe that the PDP candidate was behind the withdrawal of the former governor from the party’s primary.

LP Candidate: ATHAN ACHONU

Mr Achonu is a successful businessman, but his participation in politics has been limited. The 64-year-old came to the limelight in 2015 when he was elected into the Nigerian Senate under the PDP platform to represent Imo North District.

But his election was voided a few months later by a Court of Appeal in Imo State which ordered a rerun won by Ben Uwajumogu of the APC.

The businessman had been inactive in politics since then until he defected to the LP and emerged as the party’s governorship candidate in April.

Mr Achonu is mainly relying on the support from Obidients, supporters of LP presidential candidate Peter Obi, to unseat Mr Uzodinma.

Whether Apc or pdp or LP I hope INEC will allow people make their choices of who will govern them. It will be evil that after voting results are altered again.

I predict a low turnout though, people don't trust that their votes will count

May the most competent win.

End of APC reign

Who will win?

Don't disturb us with your fake results today. We will wait for INEC official results

If them like make them kill themselves.

Where are the "APC don rig am crew?

I learnt from reliable source that a sit at home order was enforced to some parts of Orlu for four days including today to deliberately deny people to vote. This won't make news because it is an attempt to rig elections because Orlu has a large voting power.

We are watching

Okay

Behind the scenes

Believing on Mahmud led INEC to do a good job is like pouring water in a basket.

I can bet with a million dollars that Hope has this. He doesn't need to rig.

Ok

Yoruba people are the king when it comes to Ritual killings and Money Ritual aka Owo Osole, especially Ogun, Oyo and Osun state Yoruba Muslims.


Yorubas are also king in international wire wire fraud aka Yahoo.


Omo Igbo carry first for drug trafficking, especially Anambra fifulu, them wan use drug develop Asia, tufiakwa, sometimes I de shame for some of my Igbo brothers who refused to have sense just because one mumu Dibia for Nkpor deceived you with useless juju that will make you invincible at the airport you go carry drugs the enter Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, India, China, Pakistan and co, haba na, just write your will and prepare your head for chopping off, mumu boys! Disgracing una father everyday

I pray Hopeless Uzodinma lose the election lets see if Imo state can regain sanity. The man has turned Imo state people from Orlu to cannibals who are now competing with Hausa-Fulanis and Kanuris in killing for stupid reasons, this has to stop! Tinubu if you can help Igbos chase Hopeless Uzodinma out, we will forgive most of your 2023 Presidential election rigging sins against Peter Obi.




Hausa-Fulanis and Kanuris carry first for religious extremism, terrorism and political office looting. Na them destroy Nigeria with their looting sprey, na them teach other Nigerians how to steal government money in trillions without fear, if I lie ask Abacha, IBB, Abdulsalami, Buhari, Maina, Bawa, Sambo Dasuki, etc, etc. These heartless, soulless Northerners believe stealing using politics and government position is their birthright, and the worst part of it is they cloak their stinking thieving habit with Islamic religion, always forming more religious and righteous than Prophet Mohammed but when it comes to stealing government money and looting public money in the name of being a civil servant or a government official, their religion die. Very anyhow Northerners that destroyed Nigeria and made the country hopeless with their corrupt leaderships of many decades and government fund looting. My only anger is that Yorubas always foolishly support them just because they want to use them to get federal political power and relevance




My Niger Delta people prefer militancy, cultism, kidnapping and oil bunkering as una no gree make them control the crude oil weh de their backyard.



Edo self no wan carry last for human trafficking and international hospital job sector aka bombom business



Who said Nigeria no de interesting? Very anyhow country filled with all manner of criminals working simultaneously in their various areas of crime expertise to destroy their nation, una dou oh

Much Ado about nothing

Avoid fighting, killing and destruction of properties.

The votes of the electorate must count.

Can't believe some people still waste their time going out to participate in voting ,,😒

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muykem:
Don't disturb us with your fake results today. We will wait for INEC official results

More like, you will wait for INEC doctored abs rigged result. Them never born that bat.

Wow this early morning?
There's nothing happening for now..

Following...

It's Well..
We will always do our very best..

BluntCrazeMan:
Dear Nairalanders.

Let us give the IREV one more trial.
Let's do this again one more time.

https://inecelectionresults.ng/elections/types/5f129a04df41d910dcdc1d51?type=gov

I wasn't really expecting INEC to deploy the IREV again, after their own lawyers went to the court to testify that the IREV is irrelevant.

Nevertheless, even though we don't trust the IREV and the INEC themselves any longer.,, let's still hold them by their words again...
But this time, don't expect them to keep their words.

VOTERS.!!
PLEASE FOLLOW YOUR VOTES FROM THE POLLING-UNITS TO THE WARDS, TO THE LGAS, AND TO THE FINAL STATE COLLATION CENTERS..

IF THEY PREVENT YOU FROM GOING INSIDE, NO PROBLEMS..
STAY CLOSE ENOUGH IN YOUR LARGE NUMBERS, AND KEEP THE ACCREDITED AGENTS INSIDE, THEN, KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN AT ALL TIMES.

ONCE YOU SEE ANY MANIPULATIONS GOING ON,, USE YOUR LIVE VIDEOS ON THEM IMMEDIATELY..
AND LEAVE THE REST.

PARTY AGENTS.!!!
PLEASE STOP STAGING WALK-OUTS, AND STOP LEAVING THE COLLATION CENTERS..
(IT DIRECTLY EQUATES TO THE IPOB’S CRAZY STRATEGY OF BOYCOTTING ELECTIONS..)

SO STOP IT..!!
IT'S BETTER FOR YOU TO STAY THERE AND VIDEO EVERYTHING THAT IS HAPPENING THERE FOR SAKE OF EVIDENCE..

AND EVEN, YOU HAVE TO SIGN ALL THOSE SO-CALLED MANIPULATED RESULTS, AND WRITE “OBJECTION” NEAR YOUR NAME, AFTER SIGNING YOUR PORTION..



We must get it right only if we try to do the actual right things,, and not by trying to out-do them or out-smart them in their game of foolery and evil.



As for the ONLINE MONITORING COMMUNITY,, we only have the IREV...,, at-least for now.

Beremx:
I learnt from reliable source that a sit at home order was enforced to some parts of Orlu for four days including today to deliberately deny people to vote. This won't make news because it is an attempt to rig elections because Orlu has a large voting power.

We are watching

You are blaming Hope for Simon Ekpa's sit at home? You people are the people supporting him. Victim mentality when it does not favour you.

Whatever rocks their boat.

May the best candidate win.

Beremx:
I learnt from reliable source that a sit at home order was enforced to some parts of Orlu for four days including today to deliberately deny people to vote. This won't make news because it is an attempt to rig elections because Orlu has a large voting power.

We are watching

Madam, won't you go home and vote? Stop watching online

Pin

Make Eye Neck no try nonsense today oo. Let the people make their choice