List of top losers as INEC concludes Anambra state governorship election
In it is no longer news that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has officially announced Prof Chukwuma Soludo of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) as the inner of Anambra governorship election.
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He defeated Valentine Ozigbo, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Senator Andy Uba of the All Progressives Congress (APC) among others. A total of 18 parties took part in the election.
In this report, Legit.ng gives you list of the losers of the poll whose names were not on the ballot.
NKEM OKEKE
He is the Deputy Governor of Anambra State, who was elected twice alongside Governor Willie Obiano on the platform of APGA.
He recently dumped the APGA and joined the APC.
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PETER OBI
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Obi, the immediate past governor of Anambra was elected twice on the platform of APGA and served for eight years. He anointed Governor Obiano as his successor. Obiano won on the platform of APGA but the duo later fell apart, prompting Obi to join the PDP. Obi backed PDP’s Ozigbo in the governorship. He used the campaign period to take a swipe at his successor who he labeled “failure.”
MAI MALA BUNI
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Mai Mala Buni, chairman of the APC Caretaker Committee failed to add Anambra State, to the list of the opposition states, the party captured under his watch.
HOPE UZODINMA
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Nicknamed “Supreme Court Governor”, due to apex court judgement which sacked PDP’s Emeka Ihedioha in January 2020. He headed the APC gubernatorial campaign for Anambra election and had vowed severally that Anambra would go the way of Imo.
“We are going there with a brand, an enviable brand that will be easy to sell, and by the grace of God, I think APC will win Anambra gubernatorial election come November 2021,” Uzodinma boasted in October while appearing as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
BIANCA OJUKWU
The widow of the late Igbo leader and patriarch of APGA, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. Bianca fell out with the APGA leaders, especially the governor, in the build up to the election.
Bianca had equally stated that Obiano once described her husband as a “dead man who was no longer relevant to the party.”
She also accused the party of removing Ojukwu’s face from the party logo.
STELLA ODUA
The serving senator, representing Anambra north and former minister of Aviation recently dumped the PDP for APC ahead of the Anambra poll.
She said she joined the APC family with a view to changing the political narrative in the south east.
CHUKWUMA UMEOJI
Umeoji is a member of the House of Representatives representing Aguata Federal Constituency of Anambra who battled Soludo for the APGA’s ticket. INEC initially listed him as APGA’s candidate. But the court ordered INEC to replace Umeoji with Soludo.
In anger, Umeoji defected to the APC, one week before the election.
Source: Legit.ng
