2023 Ebonyi State gubernatorial election

The 2023 Ebonyi State gubernatorial election was held on 18 March 2023, to elect the Governor of Ebonyi State, concurrent with elections to the Ebonyi State House of Assembly as well as twenty-seven other gubernatorial elections and elections to all other state houses of assembly. The election — which was postponed from its original 11 March date — was held three weeks after the presidential election and National Assembly elections. Incumbent APC Governor Dave Umahi was term-limited and could not seek re-election to a third term. Speaker of the House of Assembly Francis Nwifuru held the office for the APC by a margin of 35% over first runner-up and PDP nominee — businessman Ifeanyi Odii.

Party primaries were scheduled for between 4 April and 9 June 2022 with the All Progressives Grand Alliance nominating former Secretary to the State Government Bernard Odoh on 29 May while both the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party had two separate parallel primaries. For the APC, one primary nominated Nwifuru on 26 May while another was won by former Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission chairman Elias Mbam on the same day; in the PDP, one primary nominated Odii on 30 May as a different primary nominated Senator for Ebonyi Central Joseph Ogba on 6 June. By July, INEC recognised Nwifuru as the APC nominee while the PDP nomination was awarded to Odii by the Supreme Court in September.

The day after the election, collation completed and INEC declared Nwifuru as the victor. In the full results, Nwifuru won about 199,000 votes and 58% of the vote as runner-up Odii received over 80,000 votes and 23% of the vote while Odoh came third with around 52,000 votes and 15% of the vote. Odii rejected the official results and filed legal challenges; the proceedings eventually reached the Supreme Court, which affirmed the victory of Nwifuru in a January 2024 judgment.