INEC declares Soludo winner of Anambra governorship election

•Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State

The Anambra 2025 governorship election has come to an end and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the winner.

The election, which began on Saturday, has concluded with INEC declaring the incumbent governor, Chukwuma Soludo, as the winner, reports Channels TV.

According to the results announced by INEC in the early hours of yesterday, Soludo won by a landslide in the 21 local government areas of the South-East state.

The State Returning Officer and Vice Chancellor of the University of Benin, Omoregie Edoba, declared Soludo as the winner of the exercise after the collation of results from the local government areas of the state where the election was held.

Soludo, the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), secured 422,664 votes to trounce his closest rival, the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s Nicholas Ukachukwu, who polled 99,445 votes.

Paul Chukwuma of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) came third with 37,753 votes, while John Nwosu of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) scored 8,208 votes.

George Moghalu of the Labour Party (LP) and Jude Ezenwafor of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) scored 10,576 votes and 1,401 votes, respectively.

Final Declaration At A Glance

Registered voters: 2,788,864

Accredited voters: 598,229

21 LGAs

A- 224

AA- 1,145

AAC- 292

ADC- 8208

APC- 99,445

APGA- 422,664

APM- 892