APC Approves Indirect Mode For Anambra Guber Primary Election

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has approved indirect primary election for the nomination of the party’s candidate for the November 8, 2025 Anambra State governorship election.

Consequently, the APC National Working Committee (NWC) will be meeting with all party’s stakeholders and aspirants at its national secretariat in Abuja on Tuesday next week to carry everyone along.

The APC National Secretary, Senator Ajibola Basiru, who disclosed this when he briefed journalists on the outcome of the NWC meeting in Abuja on Thursday, also said a correspondence to that effect will be made to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Basiru said: “the national working committee of the party took cognizance of the fact that advertisement had been made and it seems the advertisement was seemingly projecting that the NWC had adopted direct mode of primary but in actual fact no positive resolution of the NWC had been taken before today as to the mode of primary.

“At the NWC today, it was put into consideration and now formally decided that the mode of emergence of the candidate for that election will be through indirect primary. In order to carry along all stakeholders, a stakeholders meeting with the state working committee, state caucus and the aspirants will hold at the national headquarters of the party by 1pm on Tuesday next week to carry them along.”

He also declared that former governors are not members of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party and reports that some of them were absent at the last meeting of the organ was a misrepresentation.

“We discovered that certain people who were not members of the NEC were reported by many media as being absent whereas they are not members of the NEC but for some political expediencies, they were reported to be absent but ex-governors are not members of NEC.

“The National Executive Committee has set up a committee to review our constitution for the purposes of inclusivity of such elements. For the avoidance of doubt, there were some who were members of the caucus and they attended but because they are not members of NEC, they did not attend. The former Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, was at the Caucus but certain media reported that he was absent from NEC.

“The national working committee also considered its proposition to begin to engage with government appointees on their achievements of the Renewed Hope agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and we agreed that the processes will begin in earnest immediately after the Ramadan fasting so that there will be engagement between the party and government officials to x-ray the progress and challenges faced by different ministries, departments and agencies of our government.

“The national working committee also reviewed the ongoing membership e-registration of the party and the consultants doing the work have been mobilised. Necessary equipment and software are been put in place to ensure that the exercise which is slated to be made public by May is made seamless because 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,” Basiru added.