The state Returning Officer for the election, Professor Abayomi Fasina, who is also the Vice-Chancellor, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti in Ekiti State, announced the results at INEC’s state collation centre in Owerri.
He declared Uzodimma of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the election with five hundred and forty thousand, three hundred and eight votes while Samuel Anyanwu of the Peoples Democratic Party came a distant second with a total of seventy one thousand five hundred and three votes.
Athan Achonu of the Labour Party polled sixty four thousand eighty one votes to come third in the election.
The results announced by INEC showed that Uzodimma swept all the twenty seven Local Government Areas of the state.
