February 28, (THEWILL) – Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has been declared as the winner of Saturday’s presidential election in Anambra State.
Declaring the results, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Collation officer in Anambra State, Nnenna Oti, said Obi scored 584,621 votes to defeat Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who scored 9,036 votes while Peter Umeadi of APGA got 7,388 votes.
THEWILL reports that the PDP and APC failed to get 25% of the total votes cast in the election.
The Labour Party won overwhelmingly in Aguata Local Government Area, the hometown of Governor Charles Soludo.
The LP scored 37,478 in Aguata LGA while APGA got 712 out of the total 40,387 votes cast.
