Azuka was reportedly kidnapped while returning home on Ugwunaobankpa Road in Inland Town, Onitsha.

On Tuesday December 24, 2024, gunmen abducted Azuka, the Representative of Onitsha 1 North Constituency in Anambra State House of Assembly.

Azuka was reportedly kidnapped while returning home on Ugwunaobankpa Road in Inland Town, Onitsha.

The abducted lawmaker, a Chieftain of the Labour Party (LP), had regained his mandate after a Court ruling ousted the previous winner, Hon Douglas Egbuna of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who was initially declared the winner of the 2023 election.

Azuka was reportedly kidnapped at a gunpoint in a a swift operation that last less than five minutes on Ugwunaobankpa Road.

“We have arrested the culprits that kidnapped and killed him. They were arrested very late last Wednesday night and they now went and showed the security men where they dumped the corpse”, a security sources told newsmen.