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The governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the Anambra governorship election, George Moghalu, has lost his polling unit to Charles Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).
The LP candidate also lost in the polling unit of the party’s leader, Peter Obi, in the election.
The result announced by the presiding officer of the polling unit, Okonkwo Ebere, at about 2:50 p.m. after the election was concluded.
Mr Moghalu, who voted at Uruagu Ward 1 in Nnewi North Local Government Area, secured 22 votes, APC’s Nicholas Ukachukwu scored just 5 votes, while Mr Soludo polled 57 votes to win the polling unit.
The LP candidate cast his vote at about 11:40 a.m. on Saturday, accompanied by his family members and associates.
After voting, Mr Moghalu decried the reported cases of vote buying and low voter turnout across the state, urging the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to improve on the conduct of the exercise.
At Obi’s unit, the result announced at about 3 p.m. at Polling Unit 019, Agulu Ward 11, Anaocha Local Government Area, shows that the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Nicholas Ukachukwu, polled 73 votes in the unit to defeat the Labour Party candidate, George Moghalu, who scored 57 votes.
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) came third with 38 votes in the unit.
Mr Obi, the LP presidential candidate in 2023, cast his ballot earlier in the day at the same polling unit.
He campaigned for his party in the ongoing election in a state where he won over 95 per cent of the votes in 2023.