{"id":2775,"date":"2017-11-20T07:56:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T07:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?p=2775"},"modified":"2017-11-20T07:56:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T07:56:59","slug":"pdp-gubercandidate-rejects-anambra-election-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/pdp-gubercandidate-rejects-anambra-election-result\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP gubercandidate rejects Anambra election result"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2777\" src=\"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/856BAC0E-34C9-4E91-9D81-BE6F349A9EBC-300x162.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/856BAC0E-34C9-4E91-9D81-BE6F349A9EBC-300x162.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/856BAC0E-34C9-4E91-9D81-BE6F349A9EBC-100x54.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/856BAC0E-34C9-4E91-9D81-BE6F349A9EBC.jpeg 318w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n#AnambraDecides2017<\/p>\n<p>November 20, 2017: \u00a0Obaze: \u201cThe results do not reflect what happened Saturday\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Oseloka Obaze, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has rejected the result of Saturday\u2019s governorship election in Anambra.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Obaze, in a statement on Sunday, said the result as released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) did not reflect what happened in the field.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission had declared incumbent Willie Obiano of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) the winner of the election.<\/p>\n<p>The Returning Officer, Zana Akpagu, said Mr. Obiano polled 234, 071 votes to defeat his closest rival, Tony Nwoye of All Progressives Congress (APC), who scored 98, 752 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Akpagu, the Vice Chancellor of University of Calabar, said the PDP candidate, Oseloka Obaze, came third with 70,293 votes.<\/p>\n<p>He said the total valid votes cast at the poll was 422,314; total number of rejected votes, 26,457 while the total votes cast was 448,771 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Obaze said there were cases of inconsistency and over voting when compared with the records from the electronic card reader.<\/p>\n<p>He also said it was an aberration that APGA could win all the 21 local governments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Anambra governorship election results just released by INEC, does not reflect the realities of the votes cast on Nov. 18 by the Anambra electorate.<\/p>\n<p>News Agency Of Nigeria (NAN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#AnambraDecides2017 November 20, 2017: \u00a0Obaze: \u201cThe results do not reflect what happened Saturday\u201d. Oseloka Obaze, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has rejected the result of Saturday\u2019s governorship election in Anambra. Mr. Obaze, in a statement on Sunday, said the result as released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) did not reflect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>PDP gubercandidate rejects Anambra election result<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/pdp-gubercandidate-rejects-anambra-election-result\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PDP gubercandidate rejects Anambra election result\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"#AnambraDecides2017 November 20, 2017: \u00a0Obaze: \u201cThe results do not reflect what happened Saturday\u201d. 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