The candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the Anambra South Senatorial by-election, Azuka Okwuosa, has rejected the results of the senatorial elections held in the seven local government areas in the zone on Saturday, August 16, 2025, alleging rigging and other electoral malpractices.
Okwuosa accused APGA of using security operatives and some officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission to allegedly sabotage the electoral process and described the exercise as a “severe blow to the country’s democratic integrity”.
In the result announced by the INEC Returning Officer, Prof. Frank Ojiako, APGA’s Emmanuel Nwachukwu emerged winner with 90,408 votes to defeat the APC candidate, Okwuosa, who scored 19,847 votes and Donald Amamgbo of the African Democratic Congress, who got 2,889 votes.
Reacting to the conduct and outcome of the elections in a press conference in Oraifite, Ekwusigo Local Government Area of the state, on Sunday, he described the exercise as a “charade, a rape on the people’s mandate”, and nothing but an “embarrassment” to democracy.
He alleged that APGA, the ruling party and the state government deployed the state security apparatus of Operation Udo-ga-chi and Agunechemba in allegedly intimidating, harassing voters and manipulating the process to its advantage.
