The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Umar Abdullahi Ganduje, has said that his party is ready to deploy logistics and strategies to capture Anambra State in the forthcoming November 8, 2025, governorship election.
Ganduje disclosed this during the official commissioning of the new APC State Secretariat in Awka, the Anambra State capital, on Saturday.
According to him, the calibre of APC aspirants for the 2025 governorship election and other party members present at the event signals that APC, under his leadership, is fully prepared to link Anambra to the national grid.
“The election will not be business as usual. All hands must be on deck to actualize this great ambition.
“Our campaign will be in high spirits. We are getting ready for the election, and we believe we will capture Anambra State for the APC.
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“Anambra, which has been governed by the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) for many years, will be taken over by our great party come November 8, 2025.
“We must connect Anambra to the center. We must change the narrative that Anambra is APGA and APGA is Anambra because our party is politically solid, and we strongly believe in internal democracy,” Ganduje stated.
He added, “The Southeast geopolitical zone claims it has been marginalized, but what we are saying is that this marginalization has been self-created. How can you have five states governed by four different political parties? What will be your political bargaining power?
“So, we have introduced a new phenomenon, which we call the political marginalisation of the Southeast geopolitical zone.
We are working hard to ensure that we get more states from that zone, and we want to start with Anambra State.
“Already, we have Ebonyi and Imo states. Now we are encroaching into the zone to ensure that we capture more states. If we achieve this, we will eventually capture all the states.”
Ganduje, while appealing to the people of the state to continue supporting President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s ongoing administrative efforts to move Nigeria to the next level, urged the aspirants to focus more on grassroots mobilization.
In his address, the state chairman of the party, Chief Basil Ejidike, commended the aspirants for their contributions to the growth and development of the party in the state. He also appealed to the National Chairman to urgently intervene and save party members in Anambra from neglect.
The aspirants—Engr. JohnBosco Onunkwo, Hon. Chukwuma Umeoji, Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu, Prof. Obiora Okonkwo, and Sir Paul Chukwuma—in their separate remarks, highlighted their various contributions to the party and individually advocated for a consensus candidacy.
Tribune Online gathered that the acquisition of the new Anambra State APC secretariat, located opposite the State Government House along the Enugu-Onitsha Highway in Awka, was spearheaded by one of the leading aspirants, Sir Paul Chukwuma.
In addition to the state secretariat, he has also secured party offices for the 21 local government chapters and ward offices across the 326 wards in the state.
