The Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo, has commended the people of the state for voting for the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Saturday’s by-elections.
Soludo stated that the results from Saturday’s bye-election show that the African Democratic Congress (ADC) does not exist in Anambra and the Labour Party is also dead in the state.
Speaking on Sunday during an event in the Nanka area of the state to celebrate the victory of APGA, Soludo said the people of Anambra have spoken with their votes.
“ADC does not exist in Anambra. We showed it yesterday (Saturday). Labour Party is dead,” Soludo said, eliciting cheers from supporters at the event.
The governor said the opposition coalition wanted to use the by-election in Anambra to test its popularity, but Anambra people “spoke overwhelmingly with over 75%. APGA is our movement”.
Naija News reports that according to reports declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), APGA’s Emmanuel Nwachukwu emerged as the winner for Anambra South Senatorial District.
Nwachukwu scored 90,408 votes to defeat Azuka Okwuosa of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who polled 19,847 votes and ADC’s Donald Amangbo, who got 2,889 votes.
Nwachukwu would replace Ifeanyi Ubah, the Anambra South Senator, who died in July 2024.
Also, INEC declared APGA’s Ifeoma Azikiwe the winner of the by-election for the Onitsha North Constituency 1 in the Anambra State House of Assembly.
In his reaction to the results, Soludo said many Labour Party stalwarts, including Peter Obi, formed an allied force to convince the people of the area to vote against APGA, but the Anambra people rejected them.
Soludo said Onitsha North Constituency “happens to be the constituency of the former presidential candidate of the Labour Party. That’s his state constituency; he lives in Onitsha”.
“And all of them came. The senator representing the zone came. The senator representing Anambra Central threw himself into the ring. Members of the House of Representatives threw themselves into the ring. It looked like this was an allied force. Who were they coming against? The people. But the people of Anambra spoke.
“They wanted to use it as a test case for the new concoction called ADC in Anambra, but that election was won by APGA; we won with about 77%, a very emphatic statement. The signal we sent was that both ADC and Labour Party are dead in Anambra.”
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