Anambra Guber: Soludo In Early Win, As APGA Wins landslide in Soludo’s LGA, Leads In Other 5 LGAs

The candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the Anambra State governorship election, Charles Soludo, has emerged victorious in Njikoka Local Government Area.

Mr Soludo, who won in his ward by a wide margin polled 8,803 to defeat his closest rival, Valentine Ozigbo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who secured 3,409 total votes in the final results from the LGA.

Andy Uba of the All Progressive Congress (APC) came third in the LGA having secured a total of 3,216.

Of the 18 wards in the local government that has about 231 polling units, APGA won in all but one where the PDP emerged victorious.

Results from each ward were collated at the INEC secretariat in Abagana town.

The final results for Njikoka LGA were announced by the INEC returning officer, J. Edor, at about 3:20 a.m. on Sunday.

A total of 103,715 electorates are registered in the local governments while 17, 934 were accredited.

Of the 17,683 votes cast, 16,958 were valid while 205 were rejected.

Though there were 18 candidates on the ballot, only three – APGA, PDP, and APC – shared the bulk of the votes.

See results from the LGA below:

3:20 a.m.

ANAMBRA ELECTION RESULTS

Final Results for Njikoka Local Government as announced by Dr. Edo

Total Number of Registered Voters – 103715

Total Number of Accredited Voters – 17934

Party agents of the leading parties in the race all appended their signatures in the election results except that of the APC who refused to sign.

A – 51

AA – 4

AAC – 21

ADC – 17

ADP – 47

APC – 3216

APGA – 8803

APM – 12

APP- 11

BP – 5

LP – 251

NNPP – 03

NRM – 06

PDP – 3409

PRP – 38

SDP – 59

YPP – 924

ZLP – 81



VALID VOTES: 16958

REJECTED VOTES: 205

TOTAL: 17683.

Meanwhile, Professor Chukwuma Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has won five Local Government Areas in the ongoing governorship election.

The local governments are Awka South, Onitsha South and Enugu Anambra East, Anaocha, and Anambra East.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed Sunday for the final collation of the election..

There are 21 LGAs in Anambra but only the results of four have been announced at LG collation centers and it has been a clean sweep for the candidate of the ruling party in Anambra.

Soludo has a total of 38,413 votes from the five LGAs and he is being trailed by Mr Valentine Ozigbo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who has 14,543 votes, while Senator Andy Uba, comes a distant third with 8,145 votes.

Below are the results of the candidates in the LGAs.

AWKA SOUTH
APC – 2595
APGA – 12891
PDP – 5489

Onitsha South LG
APC – 2050
APGA – 4281
PDP – 2253

Enugu Anambra East LGA.
APC 381
APGA: 4584
PDP: 313

Anambra East LGA

APC 2034

APGA: 9746

PDP: 1380

Anaocha LGA

APC – 2085

APGA – 6911

PDP – 5,108