There was tight security in Imo State on Saturday as members of the All Progressives Congress go to the 305 wards of the state to elect its governorship candidate and others.

This is coming after the National Working Committee of the party cancelled the earlier primary election which produced two candidates, Uche Nwosu and Senator Hope Uzodinma, after the chairman of the electoral panel, Ahmed Gulak, was said to have absconded with the result sheet.

The chairman of the electoral panel, Ibrahim Agbabiaka, who spoke to journalists after briefing aspirants on the modalities for the primaries, said that apart from the governorship primary, the party’s election for Senate, House of representatives and House of Assembly would go on at various wards at the same time.

Our correspondent who monitored the primaries across the state, saw voters queuing behind the photographs of the their preferred aspirants.

The governor of the state, Rochas Okorocha is contesting for the ticket of the party for Imo West senatorial district. – Punch

– Oct. 6, 2018 @ 15:35 GMT |