WATCH: Soludo’s acceptance speech after victory in Anambra2021 election

 

Governor-elect and former Central Bank governor and candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Professor Chukwuma Soludo has thanked the people of Anambra State for believing in him, just as he promised to get straight to work once he is sworn in by March. This he said will enable him to meet up with his promises and “the people’s manifesto”

Globalreport recalls that at exactly 2:10am, after collation and analysis at the Independent National Electoral Office (INEC) office Awka, Soludo was declared winner of the 2021 Anambra State governorship election.

INEC had declared the election inconclusive on Sunday after no votes were cast in Ihiala Council, hence the supplementary election

A decent turnout of voters was reported across all polling units in Ihiala, although it wasn’t without skirmishes.

After taking a comfortable lead in Saturday’s election, winning 18 of 20 councils declared, Soludo led the poll with 103,946 votes while the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Valentine Ozigbo, had 51,322 votes.

Presenting the final poll result at 1:52a.m. at the State Collation Centre, Awka, INEC Returning Officer and Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Prof Florence Obi, declared Soludo winner of the election after winning Ihiala to take his tally to 19 councils out of 21, while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Youths Progressives Party (YPP) both have one local government area each. The All Progressives Congress (APC) failed to win any council in the election.