ADC Senatorial Candidate Faults Anambra Bye-election Results

The senatorial candidate of the African Democratic Congress in the Anambra South Senatorial by-election, Donald Amamgbo, has expressed dissatisfaction over the conduct of the poll held on Saturday, August 16.

He called for a thorough review to “expose and address the sabotage” that allegedly took place.

Amamgbo made this known during a press briefing held in Awka on Tuesday, stating that “what happened in the state during the Saturday, August 16 by-election was a carefully orchestrated charade designed to obfuscate, suffocate and decimate the people’s voice and choice, ultimately undermining the credibility of the process.”

In the results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission Returning Officer, Prof. Frank Ojiako, the All Progressives Grand Alliance candidate, Emmanuel Nwachukwu, emerged winner of the senatorial by-election with 90,408 votes, defeating the All Progressives Congress candidate, Azuka Okwuosa, who scored 19,847 votes.

Amamgbo of the ADC polled 2,889 votes.

Amamgbo, who expressed disappointment over the outcome of the election, said polls were meant to reflect the people’s will, but instead, the electorate was denied the chance to elect a candidate who pledged to serve only them.

He said, “I have invited you here today not merely to share my personal disappointment over the just-concluded Anambra South Senatorial by-election, but to expose a dangerous pattern of systemic sabotage, desecration of all democratic norms, collusion, and deliberate disenfranchisement that threatens the very soul of our democracy.