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APGA wins Anambra South, Onitsha North 1 by-elections
APGA Secures Landmark Victories in Anambra By-Elections
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday declared Chief Emmanuel Nwachukwu of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) winner of the Anambra South Senatorial District by-election held on Saturday.
Nwachukwu polled 90,408 votes to defeat Chief Azuka Okwuosa of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who scored 19,812 votes, and Donald Amamgbo of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), who got 2,889 votes.
The poll, contested by about 16 political parties, was conducted to fill the vacant seat of the late Senator Ifeanyi Ubah. Ubah, who was re-elected in 2023 on the platform of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), defected to the APC before his death in 2024.
With this victory, Nwachukwu becomes the first APGA member to win a senatorial election in Anambra South and only the second senator elected on the party’s platform in Anambra State, after Senator Victor Umeh’s 2018 Anambra Central rerun win. He is also the first politician from Nnewi South to occupy the position.
Similarly, INEC declared Barr. Ifeoma Mimi Azikiwe of APGA winner of the Onitsha North 1 State Constituency by-election.
According to the Returning Officer, Prof. Ibiam Ekpe of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Azikiwe polled 7,774 votes to defeat ADC’s Mrs Justice Azuka, who scored 1,909 votes. APC’s Mr Ezennia Chuka Ojekwe and YPP’s Ms Njideka Ndiwe polled 1,371 votes and 655 votes respectively.
Azikiwe will complete the remaining two years of the late Justice Azuka, who was abducted on December 24, 2024, and later killed. Her body was discovered near the 2nd Niger Bridge on February 6, 2025.
Upon inauguration, Azikiwe will join Hon. Nkechi Ogbuefi of the Labour Party (Anaocha 1 State Constituency) as the second female legislator in the eighth Anambra State House of Assembly under Speaker Dr Somtochukwu Udeze.
INEC commended the peaceful conduct of the polls and lauded voters for their turnout.
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