BEVERLY HILLS, October 02, (THEWILL) –Â The Imo State All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship primary panel has been disbanded and a new one will be announced, National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole said late Tuesday in Abuja.
THEWILL had previously reported that Ahmed Gulak, the chairman of the panel had gone missing since he arrived Owerri, the Imo State capital.
Oshiomhole told state house correspondents after meeting President Muhammadu Buhari behind closed doors that the results being circulated as the result of the Imo governorship primary were fake. He said the new panel that will be named will complete the primary poll.
Meanwhile, Gulak has resurfaced in Abuja and declared Senator Hope Uzodinma winner of the election.
Gulak said, at a press conference in the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja where he officially declared the result, that Uzodinma polled 423,895 to defeat the other aspirants.
Among those he defeated is son-in-law to Governor Rochas Okorocha, Mr. Uche Nwosu, who polled 10, 329 votes to place a distant eight position.
The incumbent deputy governor, Prince Eze Madumere, came second with 128,325 votes.
Gulak said he could not announce the results in Owerri, the Imo state capital due to real threats to his life by some government functionaries.
He said he escaped death by the whiskers in the hands of the functionaries, declaring that other members of the panel, including the secretary, Henry Idahagbon, were not as lucky as they were abducted .
Gulak said that he was in possession of the authentic results of the primary election, adding that any other results being bandied around at Imo Government House was null and void.
