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ANAMBRA: Immediate past First Lady, Ebelechukwu Obiano, wins APGA Senatorial ticket
Former Anambra First Lady Mrs Ebelechukwu Obiano has won the North senatorial ticket of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).
She defeated her husband’s former Chief of Staff, Chief Primus Odili with 152 votes to 120 at the Ikpeazu Sports Stadium, Onitsha Sunday.
However, her husband’s political son and former Commissioner for Housing, Mike Okonkwo, lost the House of representatives primary for Orumba North and South to Sir Eric Eze, a business man.
Eze polled 36 votes to defeat Obiano’s anointed candidate who scored 30 votes for the APGA ticket.