Postscript Anambra
Against all odds – actual and projected – the Anambra State governorship election held and a winner emerged. Professor Chukwuma Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) won in 19 of the state’s 21 council areas with 112,229 votes to defeat Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Valentine Ozigbo, who won in one council area and polled 53,807 votes to emerge second. Senator Andy Uba of the All Progressives Congress (APC) did not win any council area but emerged in third position with 43,285 votes, while Senator Ifeanyi Ubah of the Young Progressive Party (YPP) won a council area and polled 21,261 votes to emerge in fourth place. The poll is on record as having yielded among the least rancorous outcomes by Nigerian standard of political contestation. It was a game-changer on many positive fronts, but had its own flaws. All in all, it was a good election that showed up paradigm shifts in Nigerian electoral culture. The major election held on 6th November and supplementary po