The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Sunday, declared Chief Emmanuel Nwachukwu of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) winner of the Saturday 16th August, 2025 by-election conducted in Anambra South Senatorial District.Nwachukwu pooled 90,408 votes to defeat Chief Azuka Okwuosa of All Progressive Congress (APC) who scored 19,812 votes and Donald Amamgbo of African Democratic Congress (ADC) that got 2,889 votes.The election was keenly contested by about 16 political parties in order to replace the late occupant of the seat, late Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, who had won reelection in 2023 under the platform of Young Progressive Party (YPP) but later joined APC before death in 2024.Nwachukwu is the first APGA member to win a Senatorial poll in the zone as well as second member of the party to win a Senatorial post in Anambra State. The former President General of Ukpor will also become the first person from Nnewi South to occupy the position upon inauguration.The first person to win a Senatorial position under the APGA platform in was Senator Victor Umeh of the Anambra Central. Umeh won a Senatorial rerun conducted on January 13, 2018, replacing Senator Uche Ekwunife of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) whose party was barred from participating by the Court that annuled her victory at 2015 general election. Before then, elections in the three Senatorial districts in Anambra State were usually won by the PDP members except in 2011 when the former State governor, Chris Nwabueze Ngige of the Anambra Central broke the record with Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN). Similarly, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate, Barr. Ifeoma Mimi Azikiwe, has been declared winner of the Onitsha North One Constituency in the State House of Assembly.According to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Returning Officer, Professor Ibiam Ekpe, Azikiwe secured 7,774 votes, comfortably defeating the African Democratic Congress (ADC) candidate, Mrs. Justice Azuka, who received 1,909 votes.The APC candidate, Mr. Ezennia Chuka Ojekwe, and Young Progressive Party (YPP) candidate, Ms. Njideka Ndiwe, garnered 1,371 and 655 votes respectively.Prof. Ekpe, a lecturer at the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO), commended all contestants for their peaceful conduct and applauded the voters for their high turnout.Azikiwe will serve the remaining two years of the late Justice Azuka’s term. Justice Azuka was tragically kidnapped on December 24, 2024, and was later found deceased near the 2nd Niger Bridge on February 6, 2025.Upon her inauguration by the Speaker of the Anambra State House of Assembly, Dr. Somtochukwu Udeze, Azikiwe will become the second female legislator in the eighth Assembly. The Assembly, inaugurated in June 2023, previously had only one female member, Hon. Nkechi Ogbuefi of Anaocha 1 State Constituency, representing the Labour Party (LP).
