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The 2023 Abia State House of Assembly election was take place on 18 March 2023, to elect members of the Abia State House of Assembly. The election was held concurrent with the state gubernatorial election as well as twenty-seven other gubernatorial elections and elections to all other state houses of assembly.[1][2] It was held three weeks after the presidential election and National Assembly elections.
The members of state Houses of Assembly are elected using first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies.
In the previous House of Assembly elections, the PDP won a sizeable majority that elected Chinedum Enyinnaya Orji (PDP-Umuahia Central) as Speaker.[3] In other Abia elections, incumbent PDP Governor Okezie Ikpeazu won in a landslide but federal elections were closer as the PDP lost ground by only winning seven House of Representatives seats and two Senate seats compared to all nine House seats and all three Senate seats in 2015. For the presidency, Abia was easily won by PDP nominee Atiku Abubakar with about 68% but still swung towards the APC and had strikingly low turnout.
During the term, a number of defections shifting the main opposition position from APGA to the APC with Chijioke Chukwu (APC-Bende North) becoming Minority Leader in June 2021.[4] Other key events included corruption investigations into Orji and his brief arrest by the EFCC, the formal reprimand of Chukwu for his criticism of Ikpeazu, a court judgement barring MHA Obinna Ichita (APGA-Aba South) from "defamatory statements", an aborted attempt to impeach the Deputy Speaker and Majority Leader, and the resignation of Majority Chief Whip Munachim Alozie (Ugwunagbo) to join the Labour Party.[5][6][7][8][9][10]
Affiliation | Party | Total | ||||
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PDP | APC | APGA | LP | Vacant | ||
Previous Election | 19 | 2 | 1[b] | 0 | 2[c] | 24 |
Before Election | 18 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 24 |
After Election | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | 24 |
Constituency | Incumbent | Results | ||
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Incumbent | Party | Status | Candidates | |
Aba Central | Abraham Oba | PDP[d] | Incumbent nominated | |
Aba North | Aaron Uzodike | PDP | Incumbent renominated | |
Aba South | Obinna Ichita | APGA | Incumbent retiring | |
Arochukwu | Onyekwere Mike Ukoha | APC[e] | Incumbent nominated | |
Bende North | Chijioke Chukwu | APC | Incumbent renominated | |
Bende South | Emmanuel Ndubuisi | PDP | Incumbent renominated | |
Ikwuano | Stanley Nwabuisi | PDP | Incumbent renominated | |
Isiala Ngwa North | Ginger Obinna Onwusibe | LP[f] | Incumbent retiring | |
Isiala Ngwa South | Chikwendu Kalu | PDP | Incumbent retiring | |
Isuikwuato | Emeka Okoroafor | APC | Incumbent renominated | |
Obingwa East | Solomon Akpulonu | PDP | Incumbent renominated |
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Obingwa West | A.C. Thomas Nkoro | PDP[11] | Status unknown | |
Ohafia North | Egwuronu Obasi | PDP | Incumbent renominated | |
Ohafia South | Ifeanyi Uchendu | PDP | Incumbent retiring | |
Osisioma North | Kennedy Njoku | PDP | Incumbent renominated | |
Osisioma South | Nnamdi Allen Nwachukwu | PDP | Incumbent renominated | |
Ugwunagbo | Munachim Alozie | LP[f] | Incumbent retiring | |
Ukwa East | Paul Taribo | PDP | Status unknown | |
Ukwa West | Godwin Adiele | PDP | Incumbent renominated | |
Umuahia Central | Chinedum Enyinnaya Orji | PDP | Incumbent retiring | |
Umuahia East | Chukwudi Apugo | PDP | Incumbent retiring[13] | |
Umuahia North | Kelechi Onuzuruike | PDP | Incumbent retiring | |
Umuahia South | Jeremiah Ogonnaya Uzosike | PDP | Incumbent renominated | |
Umunneochi | Okey Igwe | PDP | Incumbent retiring |