Before the governorship primary scheduled for April 5, 2025, millionaires in Anambra State have been asked by Abdulahi Ganduje, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, or APC, not to use their wealth to split the party.
Additionally, the chairman promised that the primary election would be free, fair, and transparent for the ruling party.
The “Booth to Booth with Bola Tinubu” support group paid Ganduje a courtesy call in Abuja on Tuesday.
He stated: “As a party, if we are to have good primary in the state, all our stakeholders are supposed to be born again. We told them that this time around, business should not be as usual. Let us support the system.
“We know they are very rich, they have a lot of money, but they should not use the money to scatter the state.
“They should not use the money to scatter the state but to develop the state and build APC. In fact, I will be highly interested if they can produce a candidate, consensus, I will give them an award.
“You mention the option of direct or indirect primary. As an institution, I assure you, we will sit down and the National Working Committee in conjunction with the leadership of the party, we will come back with whichever method for the primary.”
Iyke Madu, the group’s national coordinator, had earlier encouraged the National Working Committee to use an indirect primary method in order to choose the party’s candidate because of the state’s insecurity.
He claimed that because of the instability, the state government was unable to hold elections for local governments.
Madu said: “There is issue of insecurity in Anambra as we speak, even the state government could not conduct their own local government elections due to insecurity.
“They wrote to certain communities telling them that, due to insecurity, elections cannot be conducted in those places.
“And we are thinking, if a state government cannot conduct their own local government elections due to insecurity, it’s going to be difficult for a party that does not control the state to do direct primaries.
“So we are here only requesting for the party to make these primaries indirect primaries. Our constitution provides for that.”
