The Nationwide Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has confident that the Nationwide Running Committee has deny most popular candidate for the 2025 Anambra governorship election and can assure an excellent variety procedure.
Talking on the Anambra stakeholders’ assembly with the NWC in Abuja on Tuesday, Ganduje mentioned that the APC will provide the most productive candidate to reach its objective of integrating the patch into the “national grid” of politics.
The APC has all set its governorship number one for April 5 to make a choice a candidate from the aspirants.
On Monday, the Anambra Condition 2025 Gubernatorial Election Screening Committee licensed Paul Chukwuma, Prof. Obiora Okonkwo, Nicholas Ukachukwu, Chukwuma Umeoji, Valentine Ozigbo, Johnbosco Onunkwo, and Edozie Madu to take part in the principle.
The APC Nationwide Chairman inspired the aspirants to help whoever emerges because the candidate.
He additionally recommended them to keep away from residue impartial, enticing in anti-party actions, or pursuing litigation that might hurt the social gathering’s possibilities within the election.
He stated, “We, participants of the Nationwide Running Committee, we’re simply catalysts. Catalysts aren’t a part of the chemical response, however we’re catalysts.
“We support, we give a gap climate in order that the election, the motion will rush correct atmosphere. We aren’t combating any one amongst you. Handiest what we would like is to have one among you that we will be able to put ahead.
“It isn’t simple to get the federal government from any incumbent. It calls for a accumulation of political calculation. And cooperation is one among them.
“And then we move into other political calculations, which we don’t need to talk about now, because we have not reached the stage yet. So, please, we urge, we beg you. No litigation, no anti-party, no sitting on the fences. And no lukewarm attitude.”
Ganduje highlighted that even if the APC controls two states within the Southeast, Imo and Ebonyi, it’s dedicated to gaining extra states within the patch.
He added, “Handiest what we require is your energetic participation. All of you’re going to be gainers. All of you’re going to be gainers if we now have executive in a variety of states. You’ll be fastened to the nationwide grid. As we now have been pronouncing, you at the moment are a rural electrification, which could be very vulnerable hyperlink.
“So, backup us to backup you. You’re all equivalent so far as we’re involved. You’re all our youngsters. All of the aspirants.
“So, please, don’t have any stereotype on any of our members concerning this contest. We are all for you. Once one of you emerges, we beg you. Please rally around him and become the foot soldiers, so that we win this election. We don’t want the Andy Uba episode.”
Previous, the Anambra Condition chairman of the social gathering, Prominent Basil Ejidike, praised the nationwide management for setting up the stakeholders’ assembly, calling it a good building.
He mentioned, “I need to, in the name of APC in Anambra Condition, thanks immensely on your numerous interventions in Anambra Condition APC. After all, the intervention dates again to while you have been the Governor of Kano Condition. I nonetheless have in mind in 2019 while you single-handedly backed the APC applicants in Anambra Condition. That used to be in 2019. I additionally have in mind while you led a crew to the shape.
“Let it’s on report that that is the primary moment the participants of APC in Anambra Condition were referred to as by way of the Nationwide Government of our social gathering to speak about problems bearing on the election within the shape.
“We are receiving such an invitation, and of course, for me, this is a clear signal for something good. I can’t wait to be part of the end result of this meeting and others that will follow.”
The Separate Nationwide Electoral Fee had introduced that the Anambra Condition governorship election will rush playground on Saturday, November 8, 2025.