June 26, (THEWILL) – The immediate past President and Group CEO of Transcorp Plc, Valentine Ozigbo has won the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary for the Anambra governorship election primary held at the Prof Dora Akunyili Women Development Center, Awka, Saturday.
Announcing the results, the head of the electoral panel, Deputy Governor of Edo state, Comrade Philip Shai’bu, declared that Ozigbo polled a total of 62 votes to emerge victorious.
He led his nearest contender, Dr Obiora Okonkwo, who scored 58 votes and Senator Uche Ekwunife who polled 44 votes.
Of the 16 aspirants who obtained the PDP nomination and declaration of interest forms, 12 aspirants were present at the venue and participated in the voting process.
The Anambra governorship election is billed to hold on Saturday, November 6, 2021.
Meanwhile, a faction of the Party has also elected Senator Ugochukwu Uba as the standard bearer of the party in the November 6 poll.
The returning officer in the election, Chief Obidi Ebede, said Uba got 275 votes to defeat his closest rival, Godwin Ezeemo, with 114, while Senator Uche Ekwunife scored 56 votes to come third. He said there were 665 accredited delegates.
THEWILL reports that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) held two primary elections simultaneously to elect a candidate to fly the party’s flag in the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State.
While a faction of the party was at the Prof Dora Akunyili Women’s Development Centre, another faction held the same exercise at the Paul University playground in Awka.
THEWILL gathered that while the event at Prof Dora Akunyili Women’s Development Centre is a faction of the party formerly led by Ndubuisi Nwobu before its Executive was disbanded, the one at Paul University is led by Chukwudi Umeaba and loyal to self-styled godfather of the state’s politics, Chief Chris Uba.
However, officials of the independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) monitored both primaries.
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