• Ukachukwu threatens to disband SASA for human rights violations
• Tinubu, Yilwatda pledge support for APC candidates

Ahead of the November 8, 2025, governorship election in Anambra State, the Governor Chukwuma Soludo-led All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has locked horns with the All Progressives Congress (APC) over August 16 senatorial by-election.

The APGA is presenting an Accountant, Emmanuel Nwachukwu, while the APC is fielding a former Commissioner for Works, Azuka Okwuosa, an Engineer.

Soludo, in a campaign rally in Nnewi, Orumba North and Orumba South local councils of the state, called for votes to install Nwachukwu as the winner, observing that the outcome of the Senatorial by-election is consequential for the November 8, 2025, governorship race.

He noted that the late Senator Ifeanyi Ubah was a former APGA member before he moved to the Young Progressives Party (YPP) and later the APC.

But in a swift reaction, the APC governorship candidate, Nicholas Ukachukwu, said Soludo lost both the House of Representatives and Senatorial seats as governor, stressing that the governor would still lose the forthcoming Senatorial by-election.

Ukachukwu recalled that Soludo has never won any election, attributing his emergence as governor to the goodwill of former Governor Willie Obiano.

According to him, the August 16 by-election and the November 8 gubernatorial election would serve as an acid test for the emergence of APC in governance.                           

HOWEVER, President Bola Tinubu and the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, have pledged support for the candidate of the party in the race, Okwuosa.

But speaking at the Okwuosa’s end of the seven local council areas tour of the state, the South-East Zonal Chairman of APC, Ijoma Arodiogu, noted that the ruling APC administration desired the connection of the state to the centre.

He said: “Anambra must be connected to the centre. Work hard, we must win the election, secure victory in the Senatorial by-election and occupy the Government House.”         

He emphasised that Abuja is solidly behind APC in Anambra and urged the electorate to reach out to others to help APC w         

MEANWHILE, Ukachukwu has condemned the use of the SASA operatives, otherwise called Ndi Aka Odo (armed pestle-wielding operatives) in civil matters and in the enforcement of business compliance.  

He described the activities of Ndi Aka Odo as barbaric, stressing he would put machinery in motion to probe killings in the state.

Ukachukwu pointed out that there would be an election in the state, and no room for the use of the state-owned Agunaechemba Security during the election, stressing they would be banned in line with the rules of the game.