After a hard fought battle, Governor Willie Obiano, proved political bookmakers right as he coasted home to victory. At 7:30 p.m. Sunday, he was officially declared winner to retain his seat with more than 50% of votes cast in Saturday’s gubernatorial elections in Anambra State.
\nHe is now Governor-elect and will be sworn-in soon, just as his supporters erupted in rapturous celebrations all over the State as results poured in.
\nIn the final results declared by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Returning Officer, Prof. Zanna Akpagu, the All Progressives Grand Alliance polled 234,071 votes of total votes of 422,314 valid votes cast.
\nThe first runner-up, Dr. Tony Nwoye of the All Progressives Congress (APC), got 98,752 votes; Dr. Oseloka Obaze of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled 70,293 votes; while Osita Chidoka of the United Peoples Party came fourth with 7,903 votes.
\nIn all 448,771 were accredited to vote.
\nA breakdown of the votes by Local Government Areas as follows:
\nAguata LGA
\nAPGA 13167
\nPDP 4073
\nAPC 5807
\nAnambra East LGA
\nAPC 5248
\nAPGA 20510
\nPDP 1132
\nAnaocha LGA
\nAPC 5297
\nAPGA 11237
\nPDP 6554
\nAwka South LGA
\nAPGA 18957
\nAPC 6167
\nPDP 5354
\nAwka North LGA
\nAPC 3727
\nAPGA 7162
\nPDP 3347
\nAyamelum LGA
\nAPC 5412
\nAPGA 14593
\nPDP 2323
\nDunukofia LGA
\nAPC 7016
\nAPGA: 8, 575
\nPDP 1530
\nNjikoka LGA
\nAPGA 16944
\nAPC 5756
\nPDP 3477
\nOrumba South LGA
\nAPC 3808
\nAPGA 8125
\nPDP 2412
\nEkwusigo LGA
\nAPC 5412
\nAPGA 8595
\nPDP 3856
\nOnitsha North LGA
\nPDP 4143
\nAPGA 10138
\nAPC 3808
\nOgbaru LGA
\nAPC 3415
\nAPGA 6615
\nPDP 4416
\nIdemili South LGA
\nAPC 4063
\nAPGA 5742
\nPDP 2629
\nOrumba North LGA
\nAPGA 8,766
\nAPC- 3,551
\nPDP- 3,865
\nOnitsha South LGA
\nAPC 2012
\nAPGA 7082
\nPDP 3423
\nIhiala LGA
\nAPC 7,894
\nAPGA 14,379
\nPDP 4706
\nNnewi South
\nAPC 2,765
\nAPGA 10,465
\nPDP 2,255
\nNnewi North
\nAPC 3616
\nAPGA 10845
\nPDP 4157<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After a hard fought battle, Governor Willie Obiano, proved political bookmakers right as he coasted home to victory. At 7:30 p.m. Sunday, he was officially declared winner to retain his seat with more than 50% of votes cast in Saturday’s gubernatorial elections in Anambra State. He is now Governor-elect and will be sworn-in soon, just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}