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Anambra Election: INEC Official Absconds With Over 40 Result Sheets A Supervisory Presiding Officer in the ongoing gubernatorial election in Anambra State has absconded with 42 result sheets. Dr. Gabriel Odor, Collation Officer of Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra, announced this at the head office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Awka, the state capital, during the final collation of results on Sunday. Odor, who is a lecturer at the University of Calabar, said because of the development, elections could not hold in the affected areas. Prof Chukwuma Soludo, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APGA),…

Anambra 2021: Governor Obiano delivers LGA for Soludo Anambra State governor, Willie Obiano has won his local government area in the Anambra governorship election, held on Saturday. Governor Obiano who hails from Anambra East delivered his LGA at the governorship poll. Venatius Oke, a lecturer from the University of Calabar, who announced the result for Anambra East LGA said there were incidences of overvoting in about two polling units. He announced the results as follows Registered voters – 98426 Accredited Voter – 14419 APC – 2034 APGA, 9746 PDP – 1380

Anambra 2021: Again, APGA wins in Dunukofia, Oyi LGAs The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has won in Dunukofia Local Government Area in the Anambra Governorship election Prof Alexander Timothy of the University of Calabar announced the results at the INEC collation centre at the headquarters of the Commission in Awka. He reported that no incident of violence was registered. Dunukofia Local Government Area results are as follows; Reg voters – 74,855 Accredited voters – 10134 APC – 1991 PDP – 1680 APGA – 4124 OYI LGA REG VOTES - 100764 ACC VOTES -13241 APC- 2830 APGA- 6133 PDP- 2484

The All Progressives Grand Alliance has added Orumba North Local Government Area to its victory in the ongoing governorship election. Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, APGA candidate in the election polled a total of 4,826 votes ahead of Senator Andy Uba of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who secured 2,692 votes and Mr Valentine Ozigbo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who had 1,863 votes. In all, results of eight LGAs have been announced, all won by candidate of the ruling party in Anambra. The LGAs where results have been declared at collation centers are Orumba South, Orumba North, Njijoka, Awka South,…

Of the 10,020 registered voters in the ward, only 2,059 turned up for accreditation. Early results from ward level showed that the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Charles Soludo, won in ward 13, Isuofia, in Aguata local government. Mr Soludo voted at the polling unit 2 of the ward after long delays due to the malfunctioning Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (machines) deployed for the Anambra State election. The former governor of Nigeria’s apex bank polled 1801 votes. He was trailed by the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Valentine Ozigbo, who got 91 votes, while the candidate of…

The All Progressives Congress APC has accused the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, of churning out fake results for Saturday’s Anambra state Governorship election, urging the public to ignore same. The APC in a statement by Ikechukwu Emeka Onyia, the Deputy Director, Media and Publicity of its campaign council said "Nothing can save them from defeat." Read statement below: November 6, 2021 Press Statement Anambra Guber: Ignore Fake INEC Results From APGA …Nothing Can Save Them From Defeat …Andy Uba cruising home to victory The Senator Andy Uba Governorship Campaign Organisation, SAUGCO has urged the general public to ignore fake…

INEC extends voting in Anambra governorship election to Sunday The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended voting in Anambra governorship poll to Sunday, to allow voters who were not able to vote due to malfunctioning of the Bimodal Accreditation System (BVAS) to vote. Dr Nkwachukwu Orji, the state INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) disclosed this at a news briefing held in the INEC headquarters, Awka on Saturday. He said that the measure became necessary to enable more, if not all, eligible voters to cast their votes in the areas affected by the malfunctioning of the system. He said that…

Anambra Election: APC’s Andy Uba Wins Polling Unit With Wide Margin The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Andy Uba, has won his polling unit in the ongoing Anambra governorship election. INEC officials, who announced the results on Saturday, said Uba had 80 votes in Ward 16, Polling Unit 17 in Uga, Aguata Local Government Area. The flagbearer of the ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chukwuma Soludo, scored 10 votes while the candidate of the Young Progressive Party (YPP), Ifeanyi Uba, polled five votes. Valentine Ozigbo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) got two votes. Before now, INEC…

#AnambraDecides2021: Results from Polling Units (UPDATES) Voters in Anambra State, Nigeria’s South-east, overcame their initial fear and came out to cast their vote in the crucial governorship election. The election has been peaceful so far. Apart from voting being delayed in some areas because of logistics challenges, there have been technical hitches at some polling units, with the INEC’s Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) not functioning properly. BVAS is INEC’s new introduction to help eliminate voter’s impersonation in the Anambra election. In some other areas, the voters cast their votes smoothly and the numbers counted. TIME: 3:14 P/M PU: 011…