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Five days after it declared the last weekend’s Anambra State governorship election inconclusive, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) this evening finally announced next week Saturday, November 30, as the date for the supplementary election in areas where the ballot was cancelled.

INEC Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega, made the announcement in Abuja.

About 113,000 votes are at stake but the outcome may not determine who becomes Anambra’s

next governor in view of the wide margin with which Chief Willie Obiano of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) is leading the 22 other candidates.

Apart from having satisfied the requirement to win 25 per cent of the vote in two-third of the state, his 174,710 votes establishes a wide margin between him and second-placed Comrade Tony Nwoye (94,956 votes) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Senator Chris Ngige of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is placing him e third with 92,300 votes while Ifeanyi Ubah of Labour Party (LP) is fourth with 37,446.

Nwoye, Ngige and Ubah have vowed not to participate in the supplementary election, saying they prefer outright cancellation of the entire ballot.

•Photo shows INEC Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega.

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