The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo, the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) as the winner of the Anambra 2021 governorship election.
The returning officer, Florence Obi made the announcement of the result early Wednesday morning.
Soludo, the APGA candidate secured 112,229 votes to defeat his two major opponents — Mr. Valentine Ozigbo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who got 53,807 votes and Andy Uba of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who secured 43,285 votes.
We gathered further that the YPP Candidate, Ifeanyi Uba came fourth with 21,261 votes.
The APGA Candidate, Soludo was declared winner of the election at exactly 1:51 am Today, Wednesday 10th November, 2021.
The Returning Officer for the state, Obi read: “Charles Chukwuma Soludo of APGA, having satisfied the requirements of the law is hereby declared the winner and retuened elected”.
Recall that a supplementary election was held in Ihiala local government area of the state on Tuesday which was won by Soludo.
Below are the breakdown of the Final result of the election:
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
