BREAKING: Charles Soludo Declared Winner Of Anambra Guber Election

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Professor Charles Soludo, has been declared the winner of the Governorship election of Anambra state.

Florence Obi, vice-chancellor of the University of Calabar and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) returning officer for the exercise, made the declaration Wednesday morning.

Soludo was declared winner after consolidating his victory in the guber supplementary election in Ihiala Local Government Area on Tuesday where the exercise failed to hold on Saturday, 6th November 2021, the earlier date of election.

He won in the 19 of the 21 local government areas of the state.

Candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr Valentine Ozigbo and Young Progressives Party, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah; each won a local government.

But the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Andy Uba, was unable to win any local government in the election.

“That Charles Chukwuma Soludo of APGA, having satisfied the requirements of the law is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,” said the INEC’s Chief Returning Officer, Professor Obi

Soludo, 61, a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, secured 112,229 votes, twice more than his closes rival – PDP’s Ozigbo to be returned as winner of the election.

Ozigbo had 53,807 votes while the other two frontline contenders – Uba and Ubah scored 43,285 and 21,261 votes respectively.

…News Corner