The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has adopted the indirect mode of primary to elect the candidate ahead of the Anambra governorship election scheduled to hold on November 8, 2025.
TheHintsNews reports that the ruling party had fixed April 5 for the primary election of the party.
The National Secretary of the party, Senator Ajibola Bashiru who disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja at the end of the NWC meeting said the clarification became imperative following an advertisement which projected the NWC as adopting direct primary.
His words: “Our meeting also considered the processes in the ongoing Anambra governorship election which is scheduled to be held by November 8, 2025.
“The national working committee of the party took cognizance of the fact that advertisement had been made and it seems the advertisement was seemingly projecting that the NWC had adopted 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 put into consideration and now formally decided that the mode of emergence of the candidate for that election will be through indirect primary.”
The party’s scribe revealed that the NWC would convene a stakeholders meeting with the State Working Committee, state caucus and all the aspirants next Tuesday at the national headquarters of the party.
He stressed that the correspondence to this effect would be made to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), adding that there would be public sensitisation as to the mode of primary and the new timetable adjusted in line with that decision.