By Jude Michael
The Governorship Candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), in the November 8, 2025 Gubernatorial Election in Anambra State, Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu, has flayed the results announced by the Independent National Election Commission (INEC), alleging that they did not reflect the wishes of the people.
Addressing newsmen in Awka, the State Capital, Ukachukwu noted that the electoral umpire did not collate his wards and several wards in the Zone, wondering which results they used to announce the winner. ‘They are afraid. They know they will lose the Governorship Election,’ he said.
Ukachukwu said the party however had its plan on how to pursue the matter, noting that the matter would be reported to President Bola Tinubu, who, he said, had a listening ear.
Ukachukwu condemned what he described as an invasion of his community and others in Nnewi South Local Government Area by the Deputy Governor of Anambra State, Dr. Onyekachukwu Ibezim, with the operatives of the state vigilante group, Udogachi, during the last by-elections, even as he called on the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Kayode Egbetokun, to overhaul the Anambra State Police Command.
Ukachukwu narrated that on the election day, when no public official was supposed to come out, the Anambra State Deputy Governor, Dr. Ibezim, led a team of the state vigilante group, numbering about 500, to his community, to arrest people and seize their voter’ cards, cellphones, and even money.
He lamented that members of the vigilante group arrested people, beat them, snatched result sheets and tore them into shreds to allow them effectively rig the election, lamenting that the police in the state did not make a single arrest.
The Guber Candidate said it took his personal intervention to release their victims and recover all they seized from them, including money, saying that was what he had to do as a leader.
‘Both the Deputy Governor and the Udogachi people are not supposed to be seen on the road on that election day. But they stormed my community, Osumenyi, and other communities, to collect result sheets, intimidate and arrest people. In all this, the police didn’t make any single arrest. Over 500 vigilante operatives besieged my community.
‘The Deputy Governor led Udogachi people to arrest and thwart the election in my community. He has no right to arrest anybody. He is not even supposed to come out on election day. He broke the rules,’ said Ukachukwu.
Prince Ukachukwu said if he did not come out to intervene that day, things would have gone wrong because the youth were already spoiling for a show down and had almost held the Deputy Governor hostage.
He said even journalists on election duty were not spared as the Deputy Governor ordered their arrest with their vehicles but for his intervention again.
Warning that the coming Governorship Election would not be this way, Ukachukwu said they would not fold their hands to allow them to perpetuate their atrocities again.
The Chairman of the party, Chief Basil Ejidike, had earlier alleged that the Chairman of the party in Nri Ward two was killed during the election.
He accused the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), of using the state vigilante members to besiege the homes of three key figures in the party, the Guber Candidate, Ukachukwu; the South Senatorial Candidate, Okwuosa, who, he said, they did not allow to even exercise his franchise; and the Deputy Governorship Candidate, Senator Uche Ekwunife, whose community was invaded by Udogachi.
