Ahead of the November 8, 2025, governorship election in Anambra State, the national leadership of the All Progressives Congress has vowed to take over power from the ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance, saying that Anambra is too dear to the party.
The National Chairman of the APC, Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, stated this during the inauguration of the APC Anambra 2025 Governorship Election Campaign Council, held at the state party’s headquarters in Awka, on Tuesday.
While inaugurating the state council for its candidate, Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu, the APC chair said the party would apply all electoral strategies to ensure it emerges victorious at the polls.
Yilwatda said, “Today’s inauguration of these credible and loyal members of this great party in Anambra is proof that APC is fully prepared and ready, not just for the election, but to reclaim the state from the current governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo’s led-government.
“I charged you members of this council to work assiduously to ensure the party reclaims the state from the All Progressives Grand Alliance during the voting proper.”
The APC national chairman expressed excitement over the official defection of four Anambra Assembly members to the party, saying that the party had secured up to 70 per cent of the people in the government of the state.
He urged the campaign council to swing into action to ensure that all members at the local government levels and unit level come out to campaign.
He said the party would soon officially flag off its National campaign Council, which would be attended by top party men/women across the country.
“We are so happy because our incoming governor, Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu and his deputy, Senator Uche Ekwunife, have already produced a blueprint for the development of Anambra State.
“They are coming with a blueprint with practical steps, so that Anambra can fully develop and be connected to the centre (Abuja),” he added.
Yilwatda, who was represented at the event by APC South East Zonal Chairman, Dr Arodiogbu Ijomah, commended the State APC Chairman, Chief Basil Ejidike, for sustaining the party’s unity in Anambra.
In his speech, the governorship candidate of the party, Ukachukwu, said Anambra State had never been worse hit by insecurity than it is presently.
Ukachukwu said the current government did not prioritise the issue of insecurity and infrastructural decay in the state.
“We are here to change it; we are coming to restore infrastructure, to restore education and to restore security in the state. We are bringing practical governance into the state,” he said.
The State chairman of the party, Basil Ejidike, in his address, urged the national leadership of the party to join them to rescue the state from the grip of the APGA.
In their separate remarks, the Chairman of the Inauguration committee, Arinze Awogu and the Director General of the State Campaign Council, Chief Dozie Ikedife, promised to deliver the state to the APC in the November 8 governorship election.
Also in his brief remark, a stakeholder of the party, Johnbosco Onunkwo, said the gathering represented the very essence of the broom.
Onunkwo urged the people of the state to support and vote for the APC to enable the state to connect to the centre.
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