The Governorship Candidates of the Labour Party and his Peoples’ Democratic Party counterpart in Imo State, Athan Achonu and Samuel Anyanwu respectively, have rejected the result of Saturday’s election, which returned Governor Hope Uzodinma, as winner.

Achonu stated his displeasure with the result, while addressing newsmen in his Umulomo country home in Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of the state.

He alleged that the election was “marred by irregularities, including vote buying and physical assaults of Labour Party agents, and thus deserving of outright cancellation”.

He further said voting in many locations was done without the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) accreditation, contrary to the assurances by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) before the election.

Achonu also alleged compromise on the part of security personnel.

The PDP candidate, Samuel Anyanwu, equally toed the same line.