Famous Anambra oil mogul and CEO of Capital Oil and Gas industries Limited, Dr Ifeanyi Ubah has been announced as the winner of the Anambra South Senatorial election by the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC).
Ifeanyi Ubah, a former guber candidate, who contested under the platform of the Young Progressive Party (YPP) was declared winner after he had a total 87,081 votes against his closest rival, Chris Uba of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who got 62,462 votes.
Nicholas Ukachukwu, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate, polled 51,269 votes while the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Andy Uba, got 13,245 votes.
Announcing the result at the collation centre in Nnewi North local government area, M.N Umenweke, the returning officer, said Mr Ubah emerged the winner among the 26 candidates who contested for the ticket.
“Mr Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah of the YPP having satisfied the requirements of the law and scored the highest number of votes is hereby declared the winner and returned elected as the senator representing Anambra South,” Mr Umenweke, a professor at the Faculty of Law, Nnamdi Azikiwe University.
These are the official results as announced by INEC for the Anambra South Senatorial election.
1. Ekwusigo LGA
APC = 2,385
APGA = 6,451
PDP= 6, 614
YPP= 10,899
2. Orumba North
APC = 2007
Apga = 7310
PDP = 10, 012
YPP = 7,557
3. Ihiala
APC = 3, 740
APGA = 8, 981
PDP = 10, 682
YPP = 9, 478
4. Orumba South
APC = 648
APGA =5,479
PDP= 4,397
YPP = 10,511
5. Nnewi south
APC = 753
APGA = 11,176
PDP = 4,818
YPP = 7,930
6. Aguata
YPP – 12632
PDP – 10096.
APGA – 9502
APC – 3056
7. Nnewi north
APC – 810
APGA- 2155
PDP- 5849
YPP- 28,101
TOTAL
PDP – 52,468
APC – 13,399
APGA – 51,054
YPP – 87,108
YPP won with with wide margin of “34,640 votes”
