Candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has emerged winner of the governorship election in Anambra State.
He was declared winner on Wednesday morning by the Returning Officer, Professor Florence Obi Obi, who is also the Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar.
It is a victory coming after thorny layers of threats, fear, violence and direct attempts against his life.
During the course of his campaign, policemen guarding him were killed by those who targete him while sit-at-home threat by the Indigenous People of Biafra raised anxiety to the sky in the core Igbo state.
He clearly beat other contestants by polling with the Peoples Democratic Party’s Valentine Ozigbo coming second.
Soludo, a former Governor of Central Bank, secured 112,229 votes, Ozigbo, 53,807 votes; Andy Uba of the All Progressives Congress,43,285; and Ifeanyi Ubah of the Young Progressive Party, 21,261.
After triumphing again in the Tuesday’s supplementary election, Obi declared, “That Charles Chukwuma Soludo of APGA, having satisfied the requirements of the law is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected.”
He had claerly led other candidates in the Saturday’s main election, to the extent that manby believed the supplementary poll in Ihiala was a matter of formality.
