Anambra’s ball in Soludo’s court
Anambra State Governor-elect, Prof. Charles Soludo. By Ikechukwu Amaechi FINALLY , the stand alone Anambra State governorship election, long anticipated with much anxiety, came and went relatively peacefully and the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, won hands down. His victory is emphatic. Soludo - with name recognition as former Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, governor - polled 112,229 out of the 253,388 votes accredited and scored the mandatory 25 percent, not in two-thirds (14) of the local governments, but in all the 21. He also won the majority vote in 19 local governments, leaving Valentine Ozigbo of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Ifeanyi Uba, candidate of the Young Progressives Party, YPP, with one local government each. Andy Uba of the All Progressives Congress, APC, came out flat in all the local governments, winning none. When the election could not hold in Ihiala Local Government Area last Saturday due...