The
chairman of Capital Oil and Gas, Ifeanyi Ubah, has won the Anambra South
Senatorial ticket on the platform of the Young Progressive Party (YPP) polling
87,081 votes.
Mr Ubah, a former governorship candidate in the
state, defeated his closest rival, Chris Uba of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) who got 62,462 votes.
Nicholas Ukachukwu, the All Progressives Grand
Alliance (APGA) candidate, polled 51,269 votes while the All Progressives
Congress (APC) candidate, Andy Uba, got 13,245 votes.
Announcing the result at the collation centre
in Nnewi North local government area, M.N Umenweke, the returning officer, said
Mr Ubah emerged the winner among the 26 candidates who contested for the
ticket.
“Mr Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah of the YPP having
satisfied the requirements of the law and scored the highest number of votes is
hereby declared the winner and returned elected as the senator representing
Anambra South,” Mr Umenweke, a professor at the Faculty of Law, Nnamdi Azikiwe
University.
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