APC adopts indirect primary for Anambra guber election, generates N350m

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has approved indirect primary mode to pick its governorship candidate for the November 8, 2025, governorship election in Anambra State.

The APC National Secretary, Ajibola Basiru, made this known while addressing newsmen at the end of the party’s NWC meeting in Abuja on Thursday, March 6, 2025.

Basiru 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 the decision was taken to carry along all the party’s stakeholders based on the advice of the State Working Committee.

Basiru added that 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.

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He said the initiative was to ensure that there was engagement between the APC and government officials to x-ray the progress and challenges faced by different Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the government.

Basiru further stated that the NWC reviewed the ongoing e-registration APC members, adding that the consultants handling the project had been mobilised.

He said 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,” Basiru said.

The APC generated N350 million from the sale of its Expression of Interest and Nomination forms to seven governorship aspirants in Anambra State.

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.

The aspirants are to contest for the party’s ticket at the primary slated for April 5.

The Star