The incumbent Governor of Anambra State and candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Willie Obiano, has taken a comfortable lead in the Anambra governorship elections. The electoral commission, INEC, has already announced the results from 11 local governments in the election with Mr. Obiano winning in all..
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The INEC Returning from each of the 11 local governments took turns to announce the results on Sunday morning. Mr. Obiano won all the 11 LGAs with a total number of 122,688 votes. The All Progressives Congress, APC candidate, Tony Nwoye is far behind in second position with 55,961. The PDP candidate Oseloka Obaze, is currently third with 40,767 votes while Osita Chidoka of the UPP comes a distant fourth with about 2, 746 votes.
Though the election was held in the 532 polling centres in the 21 local governments of the state, there have been recorded incidents, over voting, snatching of ballot boxes which led to cancellation of elections in few areas.
There were 2.16 million voters with Permanent Voter Cards for the election which had a record 37 contestants.
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