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  • Low turnout as accreditation, voting begin 

    Low turnout as accreditation, voting begin 

    There is a low turnout of voters in several polling units in Ogbaro Local Government Area, Anambra North Senatorial District.
    Voters appear to be in no hurry to come out in several units.
    However, in Ward 406 (Ochuche/Ogbakuba/Amiyi/Umuzu), accreditation and voting began at after 9am rather than 8am.
    The Presiding Officer, Okoli Nzube, addressed about 10 voters on queue in Unit 014 at about 9.10am.
    He informed them that voting and accreditation would be simultaneous. He urged them to be orderly.
    There are 548 registered voters in the unit in Central School, Ochuche Omuodu, but only less than 15 were on queue.
    The number is less in Unit 01 in the same ward, where less than 10 persons were on queue as at the time of filing this report.
    Voting materials arrived on time in all the units visited.
    Electoral officers were ready with the materials as at 8am at Units 01 and 018, Ward 05 (Iyiona/Ochekpe/Ohita 1 Registration Area) located at the Odekpe II Central School.
    However, there were no voters on queue by 8.30am.
    Voters were seen checking their names on lists posted on walls in the unit.
    There are 944 voters in Unit 018, while there are 1,529 in Unit 01.
    No incidents have been reported in Ogbaro. Soldiers were seen on major roads on stop and search duties.
    At the polling units, policemen and officers of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) provide security.
  • 2.2m registered voters for Anambra governorship election

    2.2m registered voters for Anambra governorship election

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday, said 2.158171 million registered voters would take part in the Nov.18 governorship election in Anambra.

    Mrs Bimbo Oladumjoye, Assistant Director, ICT Department INEC , Abuja made the disclosure during the official publication of Register of voters for the Nov.18 Anambra governorship election in Awka.

    She said out of the figure, 50.3 per cent were females while 49.6 percent were males.

    Oladumjoye further said that students were the highest number of registered voters constituting 48 per cent, adding that Idemili North Local Government Area had the highest number of registered voters.

    Also speaking, Prof. Okechukwu Ibeanu, INEC National Commissioner (South-East Zone), described voters registration as the bedrock of a free, fair and credible of any election.

    “It is in view of this that the INEC has decided, today, to publish the register of voters in Anambra state,’’ he said.

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    Ibeanu said the publication was in compliance with the Electoral Law which according to him stipulates that the commission should publish the register, 30 days before the election.

    The INEC official said that the commission’s headquarters in Awka had received non-sensitive materials for the exercise.

    Ibeanu, however, noted that Anambra was the first to have 37 candidates contesting for a governorship position in an election since the history of elections in Nigeria.

    “In spite this number, the commission is very happy to remark that political parties have been very orderly in their campaigns without heating the polity and we are glad with such development,’’ he said.

    In an address of welcome, the Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Dr Nkwachukwu Orji, confirmed that 37 political parties would be participating in the election.

    He reiterated the commission’s readiness to conduct free, fair, credible and acceptable election on Nov.18 in the state.

    Orji applauded the assistance of security agencies to the commission and their readiness to ensure that the election would be violent-free.

    Some Chairmen of political parties that attended the meeting expressed confidence in the ability of the commission to conduct an acceptable election in the state.

  • Anambra election: 15 parties back Uba

    Anambra election: 15 parties back Uba

    The Mega Coalition, an alliance of 15 political parties, has endorsed Senator Andy Uba as its candidate for the November 18 governorship election in Anambra State.

    Chancellor of the coalition Perry Opara, who spoke in a statement yesterday, said Uba emerged from a consensus.

    Uba currently represents Anambra South in the Senate.

    According to him, after a rigorous scrutiny of the candidates, Uba of the All Progressives Congress (APC) won. He said the coalition’s consideration was not on party platform, but on individuals who have the capacity to win.

    “There are other qualified aspirants, like Chief George Mughalu, Dr Chike Obidigbo, Dr Obinna Uzor, and the rest, who have a capacity to win the race, but Andy Uba tops the pack.

    “Our consideration is the candidate who is calm, calculated and has capacity to withstand the storm in running for election.

    “A political party is like the vehicle to get to the destination, while the `passenger’ is the candidate. We are more interested in the candidate getting to the destination, which is victory.

    “We don’t want to support a candidate for the sake of printing posters and mounting bill boards; we want to win.”

     

  • Court grants APGA’s application to join suit against Obiano

    Court grants APGA’s application to join suit against Obiano

    A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday granted an application by the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) seeking to be joined in a suit against Anambra Gov-elect, Willie Obiano.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the plaintiffs, Ugochukwu Ikegwuonu and Kenneth Moneke, had instituted the suit alleging that Obiano registered twice as a voter prior to his election.

    Their counsel, Mr. Joe Gadzama, SAN, had in an originating summons, prayed the court to declare Obiano’s election null and void, and prosecute him for double registration.

    Gadzama argued that by the double registration, Obiano contravened the Electoral Act and was unqualified to contest, ab initio.

    He contended that the voter’s card which the governor-elect tendered before his party for the election was different from the one he submitted to INEC.

    Initially joined in the suit were Obiano as the first defendant and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as second defendant.

    At the resumed sitting on Monday, APGA’s counsel, Mr. Pius Ikwueto, moved an application seeking for a leave of the court to join the party in the suit.

    Gadzama did not oppose the application, saying that “the party seeking to be joined is the political platform of the first defendant’’.

    Obiano’s lawyer, Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN, and INEC counsel, Mrs. Joan Arabs, did not oppose the application as well.

    Ruling, Justice Ahmed Mohammed granted APGA’s prayers and ordered the plaintiff’s counsel to serve the party’s counsel the originating summons within 48 hours.

    The judge also ordered the counsel to the defendants to serve and file their replies to the plaintiff counsel’s amended process within 14 days of the ruling.

    He adjourned the case to April 16 for definite hearing

  • Court to hear case against Obiano February 27

    Court to hear case against Obiano February 27

    A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday fixed February 27 for the commencement of hearing in a suit challenging the candidacy of Willie Obiano in the last governorship election in Anambra State.
    Obiano contested the November 16, 2013 governorship election as a candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and was declared winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). He will assume office soon.
    Justice Ahmed Mohammed chose the date for hearing after Obiano’s lawyer, Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN) argued that the suit filed last year was not ripe for hearing.
    His position was in opposition to that of the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Joe Kyari Gadzama (SAN), who led Olusola Oke, Abdulrasheed Ajana and Ifeanyi Nrialike.
    Gadzama had argued that the suit was ripe for hearing and urged the court to hear the originating summons with the defendants’ preliminary objection to allow for prompt disposal of the case.
    The plaintiffs – Ugochukwu Ikegwuonu and Kenneth Moneke – are by the suit, seeking Obiano’s disqualification on the grounds that he possesses two voter cards, having allegedly engaged in double registration.
    INEC is also joined in the suit.
    The plaintiffs claim that the voter card Obiano tendered before he was cleared to participate in the party’s screening exercise was not the same as the one he submitted to INEC.
    They raised three questions for the court’s determination and sought five reliefs, including an order disqualifying Obiano from contesting the election.
    They also seek an order of mandatory injunction compelling INEC to strike out Obiano’s name from its record as a candidate in the election.
    The plaintiffs equally want the court to declare that Obiano is unqualified to contest the election on the grounds that he allegedly possesses more than one voter cards and for engaging in multiple registration.

  • Anambra supplementary poll holds Nov 30 – Jega

    Anambra supplementary poll holds Nov 30 – Jega

    Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega Saturday announced November 30, 2013 for Anambra supplementary election.

    Jega, who confirmed that the Returning Officer declared the poll inconclusive admitted that the election “was not the best by the commission.”

    He regrets irregularities encountered during the exercise.

  • Anambra election as national challenge

    ‘’Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.’’——Edmund Burke

    Sadly, history repeated itself last Saturday during the Anambra State gubernatorial election conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). And the most bewildering of it all is the public perception that no drastic repercussion will ensue. Quite speciously too, most informed Nigerians, depending on their side of the political divide, believe that one party is crying foul today because it has possibly lost election to the most exalted position in the state. This line of reasoning is not particularly correct because it gives impetus to the festering electoral rigmarole that happened in Anambra.

    Even INEC, the electoral umpire that is statutorily empowered to organise, supervise and conduct the election, has offered its untenable alibi by trying to extricate itself from any blame regarding its failure to successfully conclude the election. The commission’s Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega has public admitted the body’s failure to conclusively end the election by citing human fallibility as resounding reason for this. In what could be described as dismissive alibi aimed at buck-passing, he reportedly said: “Unfortunately and regrettably – we are human. We can do all the preparations, but if people are determined to subvert the process, one way or the other they will subvert it…So, they used our staff. I think we should be very careful when we have a staff of about 12,000 in INEC, when one person has committed an offence and then you use it to generalise or condemn everybody in INEC…Our Electoral Officer in charge of Idemili North Local Government, for inexplicable reasons, messed up the distribution of ballot box papers and result sheets. That was the cause of the delay in the distribution of materials in Idemili.’’

    The elections in 65 units in Obosi, Idemili North Local Government Area have been rescheduled by the electoral body. This is what makes INEC tag the entire election as inconclusive even when there was widespread disenfranchisement of the people across the state and most especially in areas where the ruling party is not strong. Then questions for INEC: Why is it that it was in a whole constituency that is the strong hold of one of the candidates for the election that such electoral gambit took place? Why did such rigmarole not happen in the stronghold of the ruling party in that state? Does it mean that INEC deliberately posted the wrong person to that area to administer its election? These questions and many other salient ones make mockery of INEC henchman’s defence of the commission’s failure to conduct an acceptable election in the state.

    It is easier for INEC to solely put the blame of that election’s failure on its compromised agent in Idemili constituency. But so far, the suspect has remained faceless and the farthest we have heard is that the man was handed over to the police. Like several other cases before this, it would not be wrong to infer that the matter would, like the inclusive Anambra election debacle, not be ever conclusively determined. If the agent merely danced to the tune of his host paymaster, then it boils down to the issue of compromised principle learnt from above.

    We all still recollect that Professor Jega was a member of the Justice Mohammed Lawal Uwais Electoral Reforms Panel that recommended among others that the chairman of the electoral body in the country should not be appointed by the president to free the office from presidency’s bottleneck. But in sharp contrast to this position believed to have been collectively taken by the committee members since there was no minority report, Jega compromised on this position not long afterwards as he was appointed by President Goodluck Jonathan to lead INEC. What does this then say of the INEC henchman? Does Jega think INEC under him will be different from the manoeuvrings witnessed under his predecessor, Professor Maurice Iwu that conducted the worst elections in the country in 2007 among others?

    The electoral fraud and manipulations in Anambra would definitely have far reaching implications for the electoral future of the country. It is capable of generating undue tensions when elections that would due in other states of the federation like Osun and Ekiti states respectively are to come up soon. Most of our people are fast losing faith in the nation’s electoral system that breeds ineptly corrupt leadership. But why is it that the country has persistently been getting things wrong when it comes to electoral issues? What makes electioneering matter so contentious in our clime? When are we going to be ripe to begin to respect voters’ wishes?

    Though the issue of flawed election is not peculiar to Nigeria, some elements of decorum have been brought into the chain of electoral process in most civilised countries? Are we not yet civilised as we are made to believe by the government? Otherwise why has election conduct become so venomous in our land? Historically, the 1964 and 1965 in Western Nigeria started the uncivilised and crude trend that an incumbent must win at all cost and this signalled the beginning of military incursions into power. In the 1983 elections, the federal government under Shagari manipulated the federal electoral commission under the chairmanship of Ovie Whiskey to inflict crass electoral rigging on the citizenry.

    In 1999, a coalition of election observers under the aegis of Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) reported that that year’s elections were marred by instances of collusion between electoral officers and party agents to commit electoral malpractices. The 2007 elections witnessed situations where leading ruling party officials reportedly took ballot boxes to private residences to thumb print their candidates’ names. At that period, several international observers that monitored that particular election eventually declared the conduct was below the minimum global standards and as such could not have truly represented the wishes of the Nigerian people.

    The buck-passing by Jega is unacceptable because he is vicariously liable for actions and inactions of INEC in any part of the country. But are we all immune from the rigging syndrome in the country? This is because it is wrong to focus all eyes on what INEC is doing at the centre without beaming our searchlights on what the state governors are doing with chairmen of states independent electoral commission. As Jega is presumably dancing to the tune of President Jonathan, so also are SIECs chairmen, a willing tool in the hands of these governors most of whom do not deem it fit to even conduct local government elections contrary to the provisions of the constitution. Where they do, all of the local government seats must be won for their party. So, the governors and their parties including their SIEC chairmen are as guilty as Jega, President Jonathan and INEC.

    The Anambra inconclusive elections should remind all of us across political divides of our political foibles that should be corrected if we truly desire an acceptable electoral system. Anyway, INEC erred in Anambra!

  • Anambra 2013: Between expectations and reality

    The just-ended but inconclusive governorship election in Anambra State is arguably the most newsworthy event in Nigeria today and has dominated the landscape in the last quarter. The buildup was particularly captivating despite its many features of intra- and inter-party petty squabbles. As enthralling, too, was the field of competitors, so variegated that the voters must have had a hard time making up their minds on whom to root for. It was really a drama-fest which lived up to its billing, as would be expected of any political contestation in the storied state.  It was little surprise then that the theatre continued after what was a largely peaceful voting process, with doubts still lingering long after similar processes elsewhere would have produced a clear winner.

    There is hardly a national consensus on what to make of Anambra State, elections and all; nor can there be, considering the range of events that have shaped it among the comity of states in Nigeria. The impressions that easily come to mind do the state and its people no favours, sometimes because critics lose sight of its essentially cosmopolitan disposition: a melting-pot of cultures and a potpourri of unregulated socio-economic ventures.

    Despite a few distinguishing sharp practices in the business landscape, however, no one can argue about the endowments of this south east state in human and material resources. It will be impossible to find any polity that has contributed as much as Anambra State in the Nigerian project, especially in earning the nation plaudits before the international community in politics, sports, academics or entrepreneurship.

    The generation of the great Zik of Africa dominated politics. Emmanuel Ifeajuna, Okalla, Onyali, Mikel Obi, among many others, illuminated sports. Kenneth Dike, Chike Obi, Emeagwali and others set the pace in academics. Sir Odumegwu Ojukwu was the first Nigerian millionaire. Today there are dollar-billionaires in Cosmas Maduka, Prince Arthur Eze, Cletus Ibeto, Obianodo, Innoson Chukwuma to talk about as leaders in corporate Nigeria.

    Enter INEC, the Independent Electoral Commission, with its embarrassing spasms of inefficiency. As always, the electoral umpire brought discomfiting mixes of their own in avoidable controversies. If the body could not acquit itself well in a single election in a single state, the expectations for 2015 should be left to the imagination, for now.

    That INEC disappointed most observers by its shoddy performance in what could have been a hitch-free electoral exercise is not the news. No amount of casuistry or rationalizations could detract from the legendary underwhelming performance the commission has willingly imposed on itself. The surprise is that anyone expected any form of improvement, based on the Electoral Commission’s gladly earned labels – compromised, mischievous, subpar, name it. Their performance in the election was the low point. On that score it would be appropriate to declare that INEC was the only loser!

    As a contestant in that election, I was elated that public issues for once became relevant. It is unheralded that candidates were literally compelled to canvass practicable solutions to social problems. Copious social contracts became articles of faith, debated with fervor and condour.  Everyone in rallies and the multiple debates based their request for public acceptability and the electorates’ votes on their blueprints. Quite frankly, every attempt to bring the core needs of society to the fore became a celebration of the electorate, now wooed with a superfluity of road maps and manifestos. It is amazing that action plans and deliverables could be bandied with such seriousness in Anambra State of all places. For me that represented a significant departure from the past. A quantum leap, looking back on this democratic journey!

    By and large, the almighty INEC failed, woefully in some cases, when it was easier to succeed. The claims of disenfranchisement of many eligible voters are real and offered opportunities for bitter losers to lay their claims for a rejection of the entire process. But, even then, that is not enough reason not to notice other subtle details that swung it for the runaway leader All Peoples’ Grand Alliance, APGA.

    No one bothered to take a cue from what happened the last time around. Experience counted for much of the outcome of this election, as for the last one won by Peter Obi. While other parties were busy squabbling over candidacy, lofty programs, recruitment of campaign managers etc., APGA invested rigour in the basics: motivating (perhaps inducing) their supporters to verify and secure their voting eligibility. Newly eligible voters were encouraged to register and enlist their willingness to vote. It was a superiority of strategy that caught everyone napping. Only eligible voters could exercise their franchise, anyway!In combat parlance, APGA secured its position!

    Credit goes to Governor Peter Obi and his foxy think tank. They may not have had the most impressive debates or even campaign sallies; but they sure knew their way around the electoral business, including its legalities. And legalistic brawls! Against this background it appears increasingly futile in my view for any sensible candidate to seek to multiply their losses by engaging APGA or its candidate to post-election contests. Victory has been won, Pyrrhic or not. It is time for us to count our losses and get on with life. There will definitely be another day, if only people will learn to be patient! This, I reckon, is not going to be easy, not after all the toil, wastages, hope, adulations, endorsements, titles, prophesies and affirmations. Yet this is the path of honour!

    More germane for now is for society to be on its guards in demanding its rights to good governance. It is pointless erecting obstacles or living in denial, or spattering bad blood. All who lost like me should congratulate the winner, line up behind him to move things forward. There is a great difference between losing and losing out. If Anambra State benefits from all the great milestones projected in the buildup, then everyone has won. The winner too should be magnanimous in victory. The problem is always with the entrenched winner-takes-all mentality. There is nothing wrong in asking fellow contestants over to contribute ideas on how to help society master its many problems. A post-election dinner with candidates will be another pleasant novelty!

    Failure of any kind leaves a lump in the throat, especially when expectations are lofted so high. But even in the colossal failure such as we just had lessons abound which, if cerebrally analyzed will stand us all in good stead. With all modesty I quote myself in my publication of October 11, 2013 in the Nation Newspaper:  “for the avoidance of doubt, the due diligence process preceding successful gubernatorial candidature is no stroll in the park. Anyone who has scaled the many hurdles en route: packaging oneself; surviving intraparty intrigues, funding self-projection with so much to dust up; winning primaries; passing fastidious INEC and security scrutiny, deserves respect and should be accorded recognition…Finally, the rigours of voter endorsement, genuine qualifications, certificates and CVs to plead, affidavits sworn to, declarations to be made, and the logistics of voter romance and several intangibles, are not everyday events and should not be dismissed with a sleight of hand…”.

    Every candidate, therefore, deserves respect and recognition. Beyond  “ the fawning, mealy-mouthed ‘supporters’ or the hubbub of illegal sirens, the culture of ‘rice and kerosene politics’, Anambra State has won, andshould be given a chance to move on from INEC’s mea culpa, despite personal feelings.

    INEC was INEPT, but life goes on.

     

    Mazi Austin Nwangwu  is a candidate of CPP in Anambra State 2013 governorship election

  • CODER to INEC: learn from Anambra election

    The Coalition of Democrats for Electoral Reforms (CODER) yesterday urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to learn a lesson from the mistakes made in the Anambra State governorship election.

    The group’s Public Affairs Secretary, Mr. Olabisi Balogun, said in a statement that the commission should conduct a rerun in the areas where there were irregularities before the declaration of the results.

    CODER said: “We join other Nigerians to call on INEC not to declare any result relating to the election until a rerun is conducted in the local governments where many citizens were disenfranchised.

    “CODER also appeals to INEC and the security agencies not only to document but also to put to use the lessons learnt from this election to improve the conduct of future ones.”

    The statement said the election was greeted with much anticipation and hope because INEC and Nigerians see it as a litmus test for the 2015 general elections. CODER praised Anambra people for conducting themselves in a peaceful manner.

    It also lauded INEC for providing observers with kits and proper identification to curb impersonation and difficulty in distinguishing duly accredited observers from impostors.

    The statement noted that “reports from our observers deployed in the state shows critical areas the election has fallen short of people’s expectations. Some of the irregularities observed in some local governments include ballot snatching, massive thumb-printing, lateness of materials to polling units, absence of INEC officials and materials at some polling units, inadequate logistic provision for security officers deployed from other states, hostility of polling officers to observers, complicity of the security agents in electoral fraud observed, display of campaign posters and others.

    “CODER observed that election materials did not arrive on time in many polling units, specifically in Idemili North, South and Ihiala local governments. In Nnokwa Ward, Idemili South Local Government, names starting with O-Z were missing from the voter register. As at 1pm, no INEC officials or materials were seen at Nkpor 4, Idemili North Local Government. Following the late arrival of voting materials, accreditation could not start in time in Idemili South, Idemili North and Ogbaru local governments. Although accreditation and voting periods were extended in some of these polling units, INEC needs to do more to enhance people’s confidence in election.

    “CODER observers report that many polling officers in Awka South were hostile and seem not to possess the knowledge of the role of observers in an election. Information that would help observers fill their checklists were denied them and security officials were used to intimidate and harass accredited observers. We therefore seize this opportunity to urge INEC to train its polling officers on the complementary role observers play in an election before deploying them.

    “To give the Anambra State election credibility, INEC should conduct a rerun in four local governments where massive irregularities and electoral fraud were recorded as against the three wards in Idemili North comprising only 65 polling units.

    “The reason for this call is to address the palpable notion that there was a deliberate attempt to subvert people’s choice and ensure that a particular candidate, whose supporters and strong base are in these local governments, does not win in these areas. The second reason is that with the combined voting population of these local governments at over 300,000, it becomes imperative for INEC to show itself as an unbiased umpire by adhering to the wishes of the people to have rerun in these three local governments.”

  • Anambra election inconclusive – INEC

    Anambra election inconclusive – INEC

    Anambra State governorship election ended in an  anti-climax Monday morning  as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared it inconclusive.
    At exactly 6:10am, the Returning Officer, Prof James Epoke, who is also Vice-Chancellor, University of Calabar (UNICAL), declared that a supplementary election would be conducted at a date to be fixed by the electoral umpire.
    The main reason for declaring the election inconclusive, according to Prof Epoke, is that, for a candidate to emerge as the winner, he must have scored not only the highest number of votes cast, but should also ganner 25 per cent in two-third of the local government areas in the state.
    Apparently because of the large number of cancelled votes, which stood at 113,113, no candidate scored the required percentage.
    Therefore, the commission had to examine the votes of the winner and the runner-up to determine if  the difference is less than the cancelled  figure.
    Whereas, the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) Chief Willie Obiano polled 174,710 votes to come first, the first runner-up, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Comrade Tony Nwoye polled 94,956 votes to place second.
    Because the difference in the figures between the first two candidates, which is 79,754 is less than the cancelled votes, which 113,113, the commission could not declare anybody the winner.
    A total of 1,763,751 voters were registered for the election, while 451,826 were accredited.
    Total valid votes was 413,005, while total number of rejected votes was 16,544. Total votes cast was 429,549.
    Out of the cancelled votes, 89,997 were from Idemili North Local Government Area alone, and additional 636 from two units in Idemili South.
    According to figures released by INEC, APGA came first with 174,710 votes.
    It was followed by PDP which scored 94,956 votes.
    The All Progressives Congress (APC) came third with 92,300 votes, while Labour Party (LP) polled 37,446 votes.
    A total of 23 candidates stood for the election.
    The APGA won in 16 of the 21 local government areas; APC won in two, PDP won in two, while LP won one.
    The announcement began at about 12.40am.
    All the local government collation officers were professors or senior staff of UNICAL.
    A date for the supplementary election will be fixed after the commission must have met, it was announced.
    “The commission will arrange a supplementary election in those areas where election was cancelled,” the Prof Epoke said.
    He added that all the parties that participated in last Saturday’s election will participate in the supplementary election.
    In Aguata, APC scored 5,275 votes, APGA polled 10,180, PDP got 4,275 votes, while LP polled 1,129.
    There were 24,883 accredited voters in Aguata, 23,452 votes were valid.
    In Ayamelum, APC polled 1,827; APGA scored 9,121; PDP got 5,681 and LP (624). Total valid votes was 17,449.
    In Anambra East, APC 1,418; APGA (15,300), PDP (5,579) and LP (511). Total valid votes cast was 23,315.
    In Anambra West, APC scored 2,478; APGA (5,128), PDP (3966) and LP (321).
    In Anaocha, APC polled 3,174, APGA (14,563), PDP (2,948) and LP (733). A ballot box was snatched at Unit 016, Obiamaka Primary School, it was reported.
    In Awka North, APC scored 1,712 votes, APGA (5,385), PDP (3,943) and LP 474.
    In Awka South, APC polled 6,596, APGA (9,206), PDP (5,689) and LP (1,648).
    The PDP scored the highest number of votes in Dunukofia, followed by APGA (3,670), APC (3,522) and LP (1,236).
    The APGA polled the highest number of votes in Ekwusigo (6,815), followed by PDP (4,426), APC (2,958) and LP (1,692).
    In Idemilli North, APC scored the highest number of votes (7,135), followed by APGA (2,795), PDP (1,462) and LP (643).
    The APC also led in Idemili North, where is scored 9,539 votes. APGA polled 2,899; PDP scored 3,786 while LP got 1,021.
    In Ihiala, APC scored 4,069; APGA (10,067), PDP (5,517) and LP (1,854).
    The APGA scored 10,753 votes in Njikoka. APC polled 4,585, PDP got 5,630 and LP scored 754.
    In Nnewi North, LP led with 18,014 votes, followed by APGA (4,846), APC (3,076) and PDP (1,942).
    In Nnewi South, APGA led with 8,145, followed by PDP (3,031), APC (2,676) and LP (2,214).
    In Ogbaru, APGA polled 11,716. Others are: APC (7,687), PDP (6,114) and LP (95).
    The APGA scored 10,842 votes in Onitsha North. Other results are: APC (7,616), PDP (4,947) and LP (776).
    In Onitsha South, APGA led with 9,786 votes. Other results are: APC (7,094), PDP (3,520) and LP (716).
    The APGA led in Orumba North, polling 9,161 votes, followed by PDP (4,567) and APC (3,343).
    In Orumba South, APC scored 3,147. Other results are: APGA (6,338), PDP (4,003) and LP (1,265). In Oyi, PDP led with 9,123 votes, followed by APGA (6,994), APC (3,373) and LP (206).