Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, on Wednesday morning made history as the second Governor of the apex bank to become a governor of a state, taking after the late Clement Isong of the old Cross River State, who in 1979, became a governor, after his stint as CBN Governor.
Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, who was declared winner of the Saturday, November 6, governorship election in Anambra State, with a supplementary election held in Ihiala Local Government Area on Tuesday, dedicated his victory at the poll to the three policemen, who were killed at a town hall meeting in his native town of Isuofia, Aguta Local Government Area of the state, in April 2021, while meeting with his kindred on his gubernatorial ambition.
Accepting the results of the tension-soaked election, where his APGA party scored 112, 229 votes to beat the rival Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to a distant second position with 54, 807 votes, while the projected All Progressive Congress, APC garnered only 43,285 votes and the Young Progressives Party, YPP, scoring 21,261 votes, the former CBN Governor said that the result reflected the will of Ndi Anambra.
Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, on Wednesday morning made history as the second Governor of the apex bank to become a governor of a state, taking after the late Clement Isong of the old Cross River State, who in 1979, became a governor, after his stint as CBN Governor.
Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, who was declared winner of the Saturday, November 6, governorship election in Anambra State, with a supplementary election held in Ihiala Local Government Area on Tuesday, dedicated his victory at the poll to the three policemen, who were killed at a town hall meeting in his native town of Isuofia, Aguta Local Government Area of the state, in April 2021, while meeting with his kindred on his gubernatorial ambition.
Accepting the results of the tension-soaked election, where his APGA party scored 112, 229 votes to beat the rival Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to a distant second position with 54, 807 votes, while the projected All Progressive Congress, APC garnered only 43,285 votes and the Young Progressives Party, YPP, scoring 21,261 votes, the former CBN Governor said that the result reflected the will of Ndi Anambra.
Soludo’s APGA, at the end of the election, won 19 LGAs out of 21 LGAs in the state, while the DP and the YPP won one LGA apiece.
When sworn in as the Governor of Anambra State in March 2022, when the tenure of Obiano would have expired, Soludo would assume the sobriquet of “Double Governor” has been both the CBN Governor and the Anambra State Governor in the current political dispensation.
