Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Governor-elect, Anambra State
Economics Prof., former CBN Governor Soludo, is new Gov. in South-East Nigeria
A first class economist and former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo has won the Governorship election of Anambra State, a large business community in the Nigeria’s South-East region.
Soludo flew the flag of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, founded by late Biafran warlord, Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.
Charles Chukwuma Soludo, won the, polling a total of 112,229 votes.
He won in 19 local government areas of the state and scored 25% in all the 21 local government areas of the state.
His closest rival, Mr. Val Ozigbo of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, came second with 53,807 votes, while the candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, came third with 43,285.
Anambra has a total of 2,466,638 registered voters, while 253,388 were accredited for the election.
The supplementary election held in Ihiala local government area on Tuesday was also won by Soludo who polled 8,283 votes, while Ozigbo polled 2,485 votes.