All Progressives Congress National Working Committee has adopted indirect primary system to pick its governorship candidate for the November 8, Anambra governorship election.
The party’s National Secretary, Ajibola Basir disclosed his while addressing newsmen at the end of its NWC meeting on Thursday in Abuja.
Speaking on the Primary coming up on April 5,2025, Basir said , “Our meeting considered the processes in the ongoing Anambra governorship election, which is scheduled for November 8, 2025.
“It was formally decided at the meeting that the mode of emergence of the candidate for that election will be through indirect primary,” he said.
He added that the decision was taken to carry along all the party’s stakeholders based on the advice of the State Working Committee.
Basiru said a stakeholders’ meeting with the State Working Committee, State Caucus and aspirants would hold at the party’s national headquarters on a later date to further discuss on the issue.
He assured that the party’s leadership would provide a level playing field for all aspirants for the election.
The APC secretary added that the NWC also considered its proposition to begin engagement with government appointees on their achievements of the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu immediately after the Ramadan fast.
He said the initiative was to ensure that there was engagement between the party and government officials to x-ray the progress and challenges faced by different Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government.
Basiru further said that the NWC reviewed the ongoing e-registration of members of the party, adding that the consultants handling the project had been mobilised.
According to him, necessary equipment and software had been acquired to ensure that the exercise was seamless.“Our commitment is that before the next election, we would have a register that has integrity and will also be useful for the purposes of accessing the demographics within the party,” he said.
APC generated N350 million from the sale of its Expression of Interest and Nomination forms to seven governorship aspirants in Anambra
The nomination form was sold at N40 million, while the expression of interest form cost N10 million.The seven aspirants who purchased the forms are Chukuma Umeoji, Prof. Obiora Okonkwo, Nicholas Ukachukwu, Sir Paul Chukwuma, Onunkwo Johnbosco Obinna, Valentine Ozigbo, and Edozie Madu.
Author: Maureen Ikpeama