Nigeria, Nov. 8 -- Voters in Anambra State will today choose one among the 16 candidates seeking to govern the state for the next four years.

Over two million voters are eligible to vote in the 5,720 polling units across the 21 local government areas of the state.

Four of the 16 candidates in the election are considered major contenders. They are the incumbent governor, Charles Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance; an entrepreneur, Nicholas Ukachukwu of the All Progressives Congress; a former managing director of the Nigerian Inland Waterways Authority, George Moghalu of the Labour Party, and a businessman and economist, John Chuma-Nwosu of the African Democratic Congress.

However, the election is expected to be a two-horse ra...