The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chukwuma Soludo, as the winner of the Anambra governorship election.
The state returning officer, Florence Obi, announced on Wednesday morning.
According to her, the APGA candidate scored 112,229 votes to defect from his two major rivals – the PDP candidate, Valentine Ozigbo who got 53,807 votes, while Andy Uba of the All Progressives Congress (APC), scored 43,285 votes.
The candidate of the Young Progressive Party (YPP), Ifeanyi Ubah, came next with 21,261 votes.
Meanwhile at exactly 1:51 am on Wednesday, Soludo, a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), was declared winner of the election.
Declaring the election result, Obi said “Charles Chukwuma Soludo of APGA, having satisfied the requirements of the law, is hereby declared the winner and returned elected.”
The collation of results, which ended days behind schedule, was earlier suspended.
The decision to suspend the election was taken a few minutes into Monday morning, with INEC declaring a supplementary election scheduled for November 9.
As of Sunday evening, Soludo was leading with a margin of 52,624 votes.
Following the announcement of the result on Wednesday, there was jubilation at Soludo’s residence.
The former CBN governor won in 19 of the 21 LGAs in Anambra state, while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won Ogbaru and Young Progressives Party (YPP) secured victory in Nnewi north.
See the breakdown of the final result below.
Registered voters— 2,466,638
Accredited voters— 253,388
A— 2,054
AA— 83
AAC— 588
ADC— 324
ADP— 773
APC— 43,285
APGA— 112,229
APM— 301
APP— 139
BP— 186
LP— 2,802
NNPP— 117
NRM— 213
PDP— 53,807
PRP— 437
SDP— 842
YPP— 21,261
ZLP— 2,082
Total valid votes— 241,523
Rejected votes— 8,108
Total votes cast— 249,631.
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