APC Approves Indirect Primary For Anambra Poll

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

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

The APC National Secretary, Senator Ajibola Basiru, disclosed this when he briefed journalists on the outcome of the NWC meeting in Abuja on Thursday. He also said a correspondence to that effect would be sent to the Independent National Electoral Commission.

Basiru said, “ The party’s national working committee took cognizance of the fact that an advertisement had been made. It seems the advertisement was seemingly projecting that the NWC had adopted a 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 considered that the candidate’s mode of emergence for that election will be through an indirect primary. To carry all stakeholders along, a stakeholders meeting with the state working committee, state caucus and the aspirants will be held at the national headquarters of the party by 1 pm on Tuesday next week.”

He also declared that former governors are not members of the National Executive Committee (NEC) 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 absent whereas they are not members of the NEC but for some political expedients were reported to be lacking, but ex-governors are not members of NEC.

“The National Executive Committee has set up a committee to review our constitution for inclusivity of such elements. For the avoidance of doubt, some were members of the caucus, and they attended, but because they are not members of the 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 start 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 re-registration of the party, and the consultants doing the work have been mobilised. Necessary equipment and software are 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 will have a register that has integrity. We also are useful for accessing the demographics within the party,” Basiru added.