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 bye-election held on Saturday, August 16, 2025.
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 secured 2,889 votes.
The election, contested by 16 political parties, was conducted to fill the vacant seat left by the late Senator Ifeanyi Ubah.
Ubah, who was first elected in 2019 on the platform of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) and re-elected in 2023, later defected to the APC before his death in 2024.
A former President-General of Ukpor, Nwachukwu will also be the first politician from Nnewi South Local Government Area to occupy the senatorial seat once inaugurated.
The first APGA senator in Anambra was Senator Victor Umeh, who won the Anambra Central rerun election of January 13, 2018.
That election followed the annulment of Senator Uche Ekwunife’s 2015 victory on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Before Umeh’s breakthrough, senatorial seats in Anambra State had been dominated by the PDP, except in 2011 when former governor Chris Ngige, contesting on the ticket of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), won in Anambra Central.
