Candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Ifeanyi Ubah, has won his own local government, Nnewi North in the Saturday’s governorship election.
The victory secured by Ifeanyi Ubah in his local government, stops the unbeaten run of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate, Charles Soludo, who has been winning all the local governments being announced.
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Ifeanyi Ubah showed strength in his local government by winning big ahead of the others.
His YPP scored 6485, followed in a distant second by Soludo’s APGA that polled 3369. The Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) came third with 1511, while the All Progressives Congress (APC) garnered 1278 votes.
#Anambra originally had 4,608 polling units, but INEC created additional 1,112 for the purpose of this election. 86 polling units have no registered voters; hence, elections won’t be taking place there.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says 2,525,471 registered voters would be participating in the election.
Ifranyi Ubah, is the chairman of a football club, Ifeanyi Ubah FC.
In 2014, Ubah lost at the 2014 Anambra gubernatorial election under the platform of the Labour Party. On 24 February 2019(5 years later), Ifeanyi Ubah was declared winner of the Anambra South Senatorial elections under the platform of the Young Progressive Party (YPP).
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