The candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Emmanuel Nwachukwu has been elected to replace Senator Ifeanyi Ubah of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who died in a London hospital on 27 July 2024, aged 52 years.
In a by-election conducted on Saturday in Anambra South senatorial district, Nwachukwu was, on Sunday in Nnewi, declared winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) having received 90,408 votes.
The Returning Officer, Prof. Frank Ojiako said that the APGA’s candidate’s closest rival, Chief Azuka Okwuosa, who ran with the ticket of the All Progressives Congress, scored 19,847 votes, while Mr. Donald Amangbo of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) emerged third with 2,889 votes.
It was a major victory for APGA in the senatorial zone where APC’s governorship candidate for the 8 November 2025, Hon. Nicholas Ukachukwu hails from.
Ojiako said: ‘I hereby make the declaration that Emmanuel Nwachukwu of APGA, having satisfied the requirements of the law, is hereby declared the winner and returned elected’.
He commended the candidate for their peaceful conduct and hailed the voters for turning out en masse during the exercise.
In Oyo State, it was another defeat for the APC as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hon. Fola Oyekunle won the Ibadan North federal constituency by-election.
The constituency was represented by Hon. Olaide Akinremi of the APC, a ranking member of the assembly and House Committee Chairman on Science and Research. He died on 10 July.
Announcing the result in the early hours of Sunday in Ibadan, the state capital, the Returning Officer, Prof. Abiodun Oluwadare said that Oyekunle secured 18,404 votes to defeat APC’s Adewale Olatunji, who got 8,312 votes.
He added that Femi Akin-Alamu of the ADC recorded 88 votes, while APGA’s Olabisi Olajumoke polled 40 votes with the candidate of the Zenith Labour Party, Hammed Badmus having 18 votes.
On 5 August, Governor Seyi Makinde said that the victory of the PDP candidate in the by-election would reinforce the party’s dominance in the state.
The governor, who spoke at Bodija market in Ibadan during the flag-off of the party’scampaign, described Oyekunle as ‘trustworthy, competent, and the best choice to represent’ the constituency in the house of representatives.
