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Residents of Anambra have cast their vote to elect their governor for the next four years.
Sorting and counting have been done. The collation of results is now in progress at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Awka, Anambra State.
Welcome to Day 2 of our live updates of the Anambra governorship election of 2025!
4:35 am: Idemili North
Idemili North LGA
Registered voters 246,412
Accredited 36,048
A 26
AA 79
AAC 47
ADC 722
APC 638
APGA 25,498
APM 105
APP 7
BP 25
LP 1,275
NNPP 8
NRM 5
PDP 125
SDP 8
YPP 613
ZLP 35
Valid votes 34,961
Votes cast 35,665
Registered voters 246,412
Accredited 36,048
A 26
AA 79
AAC 47
ADC 722
APC 638
APGA 25,498
APM 105
APP 7
BP 25
LP 1,275
NNPP 8
NRM 5
PDP 125
SDP 8
YPP 613
ZLP 35
Valid votes 34,961
Votes cast 35,665
4:17 am: Anaocha LGA
Registered voters 124,061
Accredited voters -28,758
A-15
AA-14
AAC-12
ADC- 255
APC-5,956
APGA-20,118
APM-31
APP-2
BP-3
LP-483
NNPP-4
NRM-4
PDP-42
SDP-4
YPP-1,223
ZLP- 23
Valid votes -28,189
Toya votes cast -28,758
4:06 am: Onitsha South LGA
Registered voters 167,078
Accredited voters 22,936
A-14
AA-4
AAC- 13
ADC-231
APC 4,156
APGA 15,742
APM-24
APP-2
BP-12
LP-615
NNPP-3
NRM-0
PDP-73
SDP-6
YPP-638
ZLP- 12
Valid votes 21546
Total votes 21908
04:00am: Onitsha North LGA
Registered voters 183,656
Accredited voters 33,582
A-4
AA -39
AAC-23
ADC-514
APC-4,677
APGA-24,225
APM-28
APP-5
BP-14
LP-500
NNPP-6
NRM-3
PDP -111
SDP-8
YPP-2,419
ZLP-25
Valid votes -32,601
Total vote cast -33,439
03:53 am: Ogbaru LGA
Ogbaru
Registered voters 188016
Accredited voters 30625
A-11
AA-14
AAC-16
ADC-465
APC-3768
APGA-22803
APM-44
APP-6
BP-2
LP-347
NNPP-10
NRM-3
PDP-30
SDP-7
YPP-2268
ZLP- 27
Valid votes 29821
Total vote cast – 30585
Registered voters 188,016
Accredited voters 30,625
A-11
AA-14
AAC-16
ADC-465
APC-3,768
APGA-2,2803
APM-44
APP-6
BP-2
LP-347
NNPP-10
NRM-3
PDP-30
SDP-7
YPP-2,268
ZLP- 27
Valid votes 2,9821
Total vote cast – 30,585
03: 32 am: Nnewi North LGA
Registered voters -166,291
Accredited voters -29,323
A-14
AA-2
AAC-10
ADC-553
APC-541
APGA-20,320
APM-36
APP-3
BP-7
LP-1,140
NNPP-21
NRM-5
PDP-45
SDP-3
YPP-1,100
ZLP-15
Valid votes cast-28,715
Total votes cast -29,284
3:27 am: Anyamelum LGA
Registered voters -96,433
Accredited voters -24,544
A-4
AA-1
AAC -9
ADC-470
APC-7,478
APGA-13,340
APM-15
APP-2
BP-3
LP-117
NNPP-3
NRM-2
PDP-13
SDP-9
YPP-2,500
ZLP -25
Valid votes cast-23,991
Total votes cast- 24,255
3:21 am: Anambra East LGA
APC-3,108
APGA-14,665
LP-304
YPP-6,153
3:14 am: Oyi LGA
ADC-167
APC-5,118
APGA-18,882
YPP-2,093
LP-3,641
3:07 am: Orumba North LGA
Orumba North LGA
Registered voters 102817
Accredited voters 29565
A-4
AA-26
AAC-7
ADC-115
APC-2615
APGA-24664
APM-16
APP-2
BP-0
LP-131
NNPP-2
NRM-0
PDP-17
SDP-6
YPP-1519
ZLP-11
Valid votes 29135
Total Votes cast 29506
Registered voters 102,817
Accredited voters 29,565
A-4
AA-26
AAC-7
ADC-115
APC-2,615
APGA-24,664
APM-16
APP-2
BP-0
LP-131
NNPP-2
NRM-0
PDP-17
SDP-6
YPP-1,519
ZLP-11
Valid votes 29,135
Total Votes cast 29,506
2:57 am: Orumba South LGA
Orumba South LGA
Registered Voters -88701
Accredited voters -24274
A-6
AA-5
AAC-9
ADC-361
APC-2828
APGA-19818
APM-20
APP-2
BP-2
LP-16
NNPP-1
NRM-0
PDP-18
SDP-34
YPP-877
ZLP-4
Total Valid votes- 24001
Total votes cast -24262
Registered Voters -88,701
Accredited voters -24,274
A-6
AA-5
AAC-9
ADC-361
APC-2,828
APGA-19,818
APM-20
APP-2
BP-2
LP-16
NNPP-1
NRM-0
PDP-18
SDP-34
YPP-877
ZLP-4
Total Valid votes- 24001
Total votes cast -24262
2:45 am: AGUATA LGA
Registered voters -154,687
Accredited voters-43,714
A-22
AA-16
AAC-10
ADC-301
APC-4,125
APGA-35,559
APM-41
APP-4
BP-5
LP-124
NNPP-5
NRM-2
PDP-82
SDP-4
YPP-2,746
ZLP-22
Total Valid votes 43068
Total Votes cast-43688
2:37 am: Awka North
Registered 84,105
Accredited 21783
A-11
AA-24
AAC-9
ADC-815
APC-3,661
APGA-15,895
APM-37
APP-3
BP-1
LP-299
NNPP-7
NRM-1
PDP-203
SDP-4
YPP-308
ZLP-13
Total valid votes cast- 2
2:29 am: Njikoka LGA
Njikoka LGA
119,605 registered
20907 accredited
ADC-236
APC-5687
APGA-22213
LP-311
PDP-47
119,605 registered
20,907 accredited
ADC-236
APC-5,687
APGA-22,213
LP-311
PDP-47
2:24 am: Results from Dunukofia LGA is as followed
21,438- Accredited voters
AAC-7
ADC 232
APC-3,284
APGA 1,4892
Lp-71
PDP 16
Valid votes 21,102
Total votes cast 21,386
Dunukofia LGA
21438-Accredited voters
AAC-7
ADC 232
APC-3284
APGA 14892
Lp-71
PDP 16
Valid votes 21102
Total votes cast: 21386
2:20 am: INEC begins collation of results in Awka.
Thank you for joining us today in our live updates of the Anambra governorship election.
10: 00 pm: All set for the collation exercise to commence at the INEC HQ in Awka.
Journalists, observers and others yet to gain entry into hall as we await the REC, Returning Officer and other electoral officials to arrive.
There is heavy security presence on the road leading to the INEC headquarters as well as significant Police deployment outside and inside the Premises here in Awka, Anambra State.
09:45 pm: Sorting and counting has ended
08:17 pm: EFCC arrests suspected vote-buyers
EFCC Arrests Three Suspected Vote Buyers In Anambra
05: 24 pm: The African Action Congress (AAC) candidate, Chioma Ifemeludike, has accused political parties of widespread vote-buying in the 2025 Anambra election.
05:10 pm: [Anambra Poll] INEC Uploads 75.86% Of Results On IReV
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has uploaded 75.86% of results in the Anambra governorship election on its Result Viewing Portal (IReV).
03:31 pm: Poor voter turnout in Fegge, Onitsha South. Counting is about to commence
03: 25 pm: Police chopper hovers around Awka as sorting and counting begins across polling units
02: 52 pm: Sorting and counting of votes have commenced in polling unit 10, 02, and 03 Amawbia, Awka South
02:50 pm: Voting has ended in some areas
02: 45 pm: Obi Casts Vote In Anambra Poll, Decries Vote Buying
Former Anambra State Governor and 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has cast his vote in the ongoing Anambra governorship election.
Speaking to journalists after voting, he said, “Unfortunately, those who are the victims of bad governance seem to be the ones fuelling it. I have moved around, listened, and observed what’s happening. What you see predominantly is vote buying, on a scale of ₦30,000, ₦20,000, ₦15,000.
“The question I ask is this: a young person who is unemployed, if he sells his vote for ₦30,000, what will he be paid next month when there’s no election?”
02: 26 pm: Observers describe Anambra election as peaceful conduct. They, however, decried the late commencement of polls, low turn out of voters and alleged vote-buying
The Anambra state Governorship Election has been largely peaceful and orderly so far, though marred by delays in the arrival of election materials and low voter turnout across many polling units.
02:02pm: 80-year-old Justina Ezidimma Oliobi, a retired teacher, is waiting patiently to cast her vote. She believes it’s important to be part of the process of selecting the next governor of Anambra State and she is seated waiting for her turn
01:55 pm: Anambra Poll: APGA Will Win Landslide, Soludo Boasts
Governor Charles Soludo has voted and is confident of his party’s victory in the governorship election
01:35 pm: Joint EU-SDGN II midday situational briefing on Anambra state Governorship elections is underway
12: 40 pm: Electoral Malpractice: Lawyer Calls For Removal Of Payment Option For Vote-Buyers
12: 20 pm: ADC governorship candidate, John Chuma Nwosu, votes at Oduda Central School, Ward 2 , Nnewi North
Nwosu accuses APGA of massive vote buying
11:47 am: The APC Candidate, Nicholas Ukachukwu has voted at his polling unit, Osumenyi Ward 2, polling unit 012.
He complains about vote buying, bullying, and intimidation of his agents
11:15 am: [Anambra Poll] IPC Faults Late Arrival Of INEC
The International Press Centre (IPC) has raised concerns over the late deployment of some INEC officials in Onitsha, which it said, created apprehension among voters.
11:05 am: The Onitsha Main Market is unusually calm. A few persons were spotted there while voting is ongoing at PU 010, Ward 4 in the market.
10:30 am: At the Central School, Nnewi South LGA, a woman was accompanied by a party agent to the voting cubicle.
The party agent was heard asking her, “Ego ole?” which translates to “how much?” Nobody is supposed to follow another to the voting cubicle.
He was later accosted by other party agents.
10:22 am: An election observer, Dimma Nwobi, of the Situation Room complains about vote buying
10: 05 am: Officials of the EFCC are present to observe the process and ensure no vote buying here at Community Primary School, Amawbia, Awka South LGA
09: 31 am: Voting is ongoing at Fegge Community Primary School, Fegge in Onitsha
09:31 am: The Onitsha Bridge, where several heavy-duty trucks and vehicles have been cordoned off for the election.
09: 25 am: Residents Peaceful, Have Little To Worry About Security — CSO
A representative of a civil society organisation monitoring the Anambra Governorship Election, Jake Epelle, says residents have little to fear regarding security across the state.
09:20 am: Expectations On Amupitan High, No Excuses Will Be Accepted — SAN
Anambra Poll: Parties Should Be Blamed If There Is Voter Apathy, Says Yiagahttps://t.co/WAn98RjoU8
— Channels Television (@channelstv) November 8, 2025
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Joash Amupitan, has been advised to do everything in his power to deliver a free and fair election in the Anambra governorship election scheduled for Saturday, stating that no excuses for failure would be accepted from his end.
09: 10 am:Parties Should Be Blamed If There Is Voter Apathy, Says Yiaga
The Executive Director of Yiaga Africa, Samson Itodo, has said political parties should be held responsible if there is voter apathy in the Anambra 2025 governorship election.
Itodo spoke on Saturday during Channels Television’s “Anambra Decides 2025,” a special coverage for the governorship election in the South-East state.
08:51 am: Channels Television’s Geoffrey Uzono gives live updates from Community Primary School, Amawbia, Anambra South and speaks with elderly voters who say they arrived at their polling unit at 7 am and are ”excited” to cast their votes.
Credit: — Channels Television
Dangote Refinery has again reduced its gantry petrol price nationwide to N1,125 per litre from N1,175 per litre.
The spokesperson of Dangote Group, Anthony Chijiena, confirmed the latest reduction to DAILY POST on Thursday.
This means that the refinery dropped its petrol gantry price by N50 per litre.
“It is true our petrol gantry price was reduced by N50 per litre,” Chijiena told DAILY POST.
Similarly, the coastal petrol supply price of Dangote Refinery decreased from N1,495,215 per metric tonne to N1,428,165 per metric tonne.
The development comes as crude oil prices dropped significantly to $69 and $73 per barrel, the same rates as pre-Middle East crisis times.
Recall that on June 16, the Dangote Refinery had reduced its gantry petrol price by N75 per litre, triggering a nationwide retail fuel reduction days later. This brought the total price reduction by Dangote Refinery in two weeks since global prices eased to N125 per litre.
Currently retail fuel prices stand at between N1,241 and N1,305 per litre in Abuja and its environs.
However, Nigerians are clamouring for a further drop in retail fuel to around N800 and N900 per litre, the rate before the Iran-United States-Israel war, which escalated on February 28, 2026.
The Court of Appeal, Abuja, has deferred until July 7, the hearing of substantive appeals seeking to set aside the judgment that ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to deregister the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and four other political parties.
A three-member panel of the appellate court, led by Justice Abba Mohammed, agreed to a full-blown hearing of the appeals after house-keeping proceedings that enabled parties in the matter to identify and regularise all the processes they filed in the matter.
Aside from the ADC, the other parties seeking the nullification of the Federal High Court judgment are the Action Peoples Party (APP), Action Alliance (AA), Accord Party (AP), and Zenith Labour Party (ZLP).
The appellate court panel held that all the appeals would be heard on the scheduled date.
The court had on June 16 ordered the stay of execution of the high court judgment, even as it slammed the trial judge for disrespecting the judicial hierarchy.
The panel berated Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court in Abuja for disobeying an order it made on May 22, which directed him to stay proceedings in the case pending the outcome of an appeal by the parties.
According to the appellate court, even though the trial judge’s attention was drawn to the order for stay of proceedings, he intentionally flouted it and went ahead to deliver the judgment.
It held that Justice Lifu’s action was “a form of judicial impertinence,” stressing that the Supreme Court had previously held that a judge who acted in such a manner “is unfit for the bench, as the conduct amounts to judicial rascality”.
The high court had directed INEC to deregister the five political parties it said failed to meet the constitutional requirements to warrant their continued existence and participation in future elections.
It also barred INEC from further according recognition to the parties, accepting nominations of candidates from the affected parties, or giving effect to their activities for the purpose of participating in the 2027 general elections.
Justice Lifu ordered the defendants to stop parading themselves as registered political parties in the country, saying he found merit in a suit that was filed against them by the National Forum of Former Legislators (NFFL).
The NFFL had, in the suit, prayed the court to determine whether INEC has a constitutional obligation to remove political parties that fail to meet the electoral performance thresholds set out in Section 225A of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), as reinforced by the Electoral Act 2022 and INEC’s regulations.
It was the position of the plaintiffs that the five political parties listed as defendants had persistently failed to meet the constitutional benchmarks required to retain their registration.
The former legislators stressed that the requirements included winning at least 25 per cent of votes in a state during a presidential election or securing at least one elective seat at the national, state, or local government level.
They told the court that the ADC and the four other parties performed poorly in both the 2023 general elections and the by-elections conducted by INEC, thereby failing to win seats across key tiers of government.
However, dissatisfied with the trial court’s verdict, all the defendants, including INEC, urged the appellate court to set it aside.
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has warned that the creation of state police will not resolve insecurity in Nigeria unless the government addresses poverty and unemployment.
Falana, who appeared on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday, said the country’s insecurity challenge was often narrowly reduced to questions of security architecture, without adequate attention to social security and the conditions driving young people into crime.
“We always reduce the problem of insecurity to security architecture, in fact structure. How do we have more police stations? How do we employ more policemen and women without considering social security?” Falana queried.
“Why are more young men taking to criminality? Why are we not talking about creating employment for young people? Why are we not giving assistance to Nigerians that are vulnerable, extremely poor or dimensionally poor? And unless you address these problems holistically, creating a state police or local government police will not address the crisis of insecurity in the country.”
His comments came after President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday transmitted to the Senate a bill seeking to amend the 1999 Constitution to provide for the establishment of state police services across the federation.
The Senate passed the bill on Wednesday after Senate Leader Opeyemi Bamidele presented its general principles. The bill subsequently scaled second reading, was considered clause-by-clause and passed third reading, with more than two-thirds of senators voting in support.
When assented to by the President, the legislation will replace the existing Nigeria Police Force framework with a dual structure comprising a Federal Police Service and State Police Services.
A key provision of the bill empowers state governors to appoint commissioners of police for their respective states, subject to confirmation by the state Houses of Assembly.
Lawmakers also incorporated safeguards aimed at protecting political freedoms and civil liberties, in response to concerns about possible abuse of the proposed policing structure.
Falana said regional police was not new to Nigeria, noting that the country operated a decentralised policing system during the First Republic.
However, he said the system was abolished due to what he described as the gross abuse of police powers by regional leaders.
He said Nigeria must address the issues that led to the abolition of the dual policing system if it intends to return to it.
“If we now want to go back to the status quo ante bellum, we must ask questions. The fears that were entertained, the problem that led to the abolition of the dual policing system, have they been taken care of? I haven’t seen any signs. I have seen the bill passed by both chambers of the National Assembly, the bill is so sketchy,” he said.
Falana also raised concerns about checks and balances in the operation of state police, as well as the ability of some state governments to fund the proposed police services.
He said some state governments could barely pay salaries and pensions.
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