- Owerri-Imo State Nigeria, Chief Rocha Anayo Okorocha, the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, has been declared winner of the governorship election in Imo State. Okorocha polled a total of 336,859 votes to beat his closest rival of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and governor of the state, Chief Ikedi Godson Ohakim, who scored 290,496 to place second in the contest with a margin of 46,363. Senator Ifeanyi Araraume of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) placed a distant third position with a total votes of 107,608, while Chief Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) scored a paltry 3,063.

- After a long meeting with its lawyers over the inconclusive elections in Imo State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has resolved to conduct supplementary elections in the state on May 6 this year. In a statement issued by the Secretary to the commission, Alhaji Abdullahi A. Kaugama at 8 pm on Friday night while the meeting was still going on at INEC headquarters, the electoral body stated that the election would take place in four local governments and one ward in Imo State. Following the April 26, 2011 governorship election in Imo State which the Returning Officer ruled inconclusive, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has scheduled supplement…