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

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