Governor Chukwuma Soludo has secured a second term in office after he was declared the winner of the November 8 Anambra State governorship election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
The electoral umpire, in the early hours of Sunday announced that Soludo won by a landslide in the 21 local government areas of the state.
The Returning Officer and Vice Chancellor of the University of Benin, Omoregie Edoba, declared Soludo as the winner of the exercise after the collation of results from the local government areas of the state where the election was held.
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“I hereby declare that Soludo Chukwuma Charles of the APGA, having satisfied the requirements of the law, is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,” Edoba, a professor, told a gathering at the state headquarters of INEC in Awka, the state capital, where the election results were collated.
Soludo, the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, secured 422,664 votes to trounce his closest rival, the All Progressives Congress Nicholas Ukachukwu, who polled 99,445 votes.
Paul Chukwuma of the Young Progressives Party came third with 37,753 votes, while John Nwosu of the African Democratic Congress scored 8,208 votes.
George Moghalu of the Labour Party and Jude Ezenwafor of the Peoples Democratic Party scored 10,576 votes and 1,401 votes, respectively.
Shortly after the results were announced, party agents present signed the result sheet.
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