Anambra Decides: Soludo leads after 21 LGAs but election may be declared inconclusive
The candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chukwuma Soludo, has secured the majority of the votes cast in Saturday’s Anambra governorship election.
The results of the election were formally announced at the INEC state collation centre in Awka, Anambra State, on Sunday.
Mr Soludo may, however, not be declared the winner of the election yet due to the technicalities with the figures.
The APGA candidate won in 17 of the 21 local government areas of the state. One local government was won by the PDP candidate (Valentine Ozigbo) while the candidate of the YPP, Ifeanyi Ubah, also won in one local government.
However, the collation officers for one local government area (Ihiala ) said at the INEC collation centre that elections did not hold in their local governments.
While Mr Soludo leads his closest challenger, Mr Ozigbo, with over 45,000 votes, Ihiala local government alone has over 148,000 registered voters.
The election may thus be declared inconclusive to allow for rerun elections in the two affected local governments and other polling units where elections did not hold.
INEC is, however, still reviewing the situation and has not taken a position.
Read our detailed results from each local government.
Local government results so far:
1 Aguata LGA
APC – 4773
APGA – 9136
PDP – 3798
YPP – 1070
2 Anambra East LGA
APGA – 9,746
APC – 2,034
PDP – 1,380
YPP – 559
3 Anambra West LGA
APC – 1233
APGA – 1918
PDP – 1401
YPP – 357
4 Anaocha LGA
APGA – 6,925
PDP – 5,025
APC – 2,085
5 Akwa North LG
APC – 755
APGA – 1908
PDP – 840
6 Awka South LGA
APGA – 12,891
APC – 2,595
PDP – 5,496
YPP – 919
7 Ayamelum LGA
APGA – 3,424
PDP – 2,804
APC – 2,409
8 Dunukofia LGA
APGA – 4,124
APC – 1,991
PDP – 1,690
YPP – 1,360
9 Ekwusigo LGA
APC – 1237
APGA – 2570
PDP – 1857
YPP – 727
10 Idemmili North
APC – 2291
APGA – 5358
PDP – 3321
YPP – 902
11 Idemili South LGA
APGA -2,312
PDP -2,016
APC – 1,039
YPP -752
12 Ihiala LGA
20 RAs
Registered voters: 148407
No election in Ihiala LGA
13 Njikoka LGA
APGA – 8,798
APC – 3,216
PDP – 3,409
14 Nnewi North LGA
APC – 1,278
APGA -3,369
PDP -1,511
YPP – 6,485
15 Nnewi South LGA
APC – 1307
APGA – 3243
PDP – 2226
YPP – 1327
16 Ogbaru LG
APC – 1178
APGA – 3051
PDP – 3445
YPP – 484
17 Onitsha North LGA
APGA – 5,587
APC – 3,909
PDP – 3,781
YPP – 682
18 Onitsha South LGA
APGA – 4,281
APC – 2,050
PDP – 2,253
YPP – 271
19 Orumba North LGA
APGA – 4,787
APC – 2,672
PDP – 1,847
20 Orumba South
APC – 2,060
APGA – 4,394
PDP -1,672
YPP – 887
21 Oyi LG
APGA – 6,133
APC- 2,830
PDP – 2,484