A banker, Valentine Ozigbo, has emerged as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State.
The 50-year-old Mr Ozigbo polled 62 out of 218 votes to beat 13 other aspirants on the ballot.
Some aspirants had withdrawn from the primary out of protest because of the new list of delegates released by the party’s National Working Committee.
Besides, a faction of the party had held a parallel primary elsewhere in Awka, which produced Ugochukwu Uba as its own candidate.
The candidates defeated by Mr Ozigbo included Uche Ukwunife, a serving senator, who scored 44 votes and came third in the primary, which was conducted late into Saturday night.
Obiora Okonkwo, a billionaire businessman, came second with 58 votes.
Mr Valentine Ozigbo was the president and chief executive officer of Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc (Transcorp) from 2019 to 2020.
He has worked with several banks in Nigeria, including Diamond Bank and the United Bank for Africa.
Mr Ozigbo will be contesting against a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Charles Soludo, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate for the November 6 governorship election in the state.
APGA is the ruling party in the state.
Andy Uba emerges from the APC.
Andy Uba, a former Senator, has been declared the winner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship Primary in Anambra State.
The APC primary election panel Chairman and governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun, declared Uba winner on Sunday morning.
Uba polled a total of 230,201 votes to defeat Johnbosco Onunkwo, his closest rival, who secured 28,746 votes.
There were a total of 348,490 valid votes in the election.
Below is the final result of the exercise.
The final result of Anambra APC 2021 governorship primary
- Number of accredited voters – 348,490
- Total valid votes – 348,490
- Total invalid votes – Nil
- Method of voting – option A4
Result.
1. Azuka Okwuosa – 17,159 votes
2. Johnbosco Onunkwo – 28,746 votes
3. Paul Orajiaka – 4,248 votes
4. Ben Etiaba – 4,244 votes
5. Conel Onyejegbu – 3,414 votes
6. Maxwell Okoye – 2,540 votes
7. Andy Uba MFR – 230,201 votes
8. Chido Nwankwo – 21,281 votes
9. George Moghalu – 18,596 votes
10. Amobi Nwokafor – 3,335 votes
11. Ikeobasi Mokelu – 3,727 votes
12. Edozie Mmadụ – 3,626 votes
13. Hygers Ifeanyi – 1,466 votes
14. Godwin Okonkwo – 5,907 votes
