The candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), in Anambra state, Prof. Charles Soludo has been declared the winner of the governorship election held Saturday, November 6.
Soludo swept to victory, winning 19 of the 21 local government areas of the state.
“That Charles Chukwuma Soludo of APGA, having satisfied the requirements of the law is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,” the Independent National Electoral Commission’s Chief Returning Officer for the poll, Prof. Florence Obi, announced the outcome on Wednesday morning.
Candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (Mr Valentine Ozigbo) and Young Progressives Party (Senator Ifeanyi Ubah) each won a local government.
However, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Andy Uba, was unable to win any local government in the election.
Soludo, 61, a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), conveniently secured 112,229 votes, twice more than his closest rival – PDP’s Ozigbo to be returned as winner of the election.
Ozigbo polled 53,807 votes while the other two frontline contenders – Uba and Ubah struggled to score 43,285 and 21,261 votes respectively.
Soludo will be succeeding Governor Willie Obiano, who is in the final months of his second term and APGA will be retaining power in the state, which it has governed since 2006.
