Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo, has declared that Saturday’s by-elections in the state prove that the Labour Party (LP) and the African Democratic Congress (ADC) are “dead” and “non-existent” in Anambra.

Soludo made the remarks on Sunday at a victory celebration in Nanka, following the All Progressives Grand Alliance’s (APGA) strong performance in the polls.

Taking a swipe at his predecessor, Peter Obi, who backed ADC candidates in the election, Soludo said:
“ADC does not exist in Anambra. We showed it yesterday. Labour Party is dead.”

The governor argued that the opposition coalition had sought to use the polls to test its popularity but failed. “The people spoke overwhelmingly with over 75 per cent. APGA is our movement,” he said to party loyalists, many of whom wore APGA’s symbolic cock insignia.

In the Anambra South Senatorial race, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared APGA’s Emmanuel Nwachukwu winner with 90,408 votes, defeating the APC’s Azuka Okwuosa (19,847 votes) and ADC’s Donald Amangbo (2,889 votes). Nwachukwu replaces Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, who died in July 2024.

INEC also returned APGA’s Ifeoma Azikiwe as the winner of the Onitsha North Constituency 1 by-election.

Soludo noted that Onitsha North is Obi’s home constituency, saying:
“They wanted to use it as a test case for this new concoction called ADC in Anambra. But APGA won with about 77 per cent—an emphatic statement. The signal we sent was that both ADC and Labour Party are dead in Anambra.”

The governor, who seeks re-election in November 2025, added that he remains unapologetic about his over two-decade friendship with President Bola Tinubu.