Ahead of governorship primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Anambra State, the National Chairman, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has asked stakeholders and aspirants jostling for ticket, who he said are mostly rich men, not to scatter the party with their resources but rather to build it.
Ganduje also vowed to present award to Anambra APC if they could be united and produce a consensus candidate.
Speaking while hosting a support group of the party known as Booth 2 Booth with Bola Tinubu, at the party’s national secretariat Tuesday in Abuja, Ganduje assured that his leadership we ensure a free, fair and credible primary election in Anambra.
According to Ganduje, Anambra should assist in providing conducive atmosphere. As a party, if we are to have good primary in the state, all our stakeholders supposed to be born again.
“All of the are educated and rich. We have 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 use the money to develop the state and but the APC.
“In fact, I will be highly interested if they can produce a candidate through 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 in the state and agree on whichever method for the primary.”
Speaking earlier, National Coordinator of the Booth 2 Booth with Bola Tinubu, Iyke Madu, told the APC NWC that if credible primary election is conducted, and it is clear to everybody that the winner emerge through a credible process, they will all work together and ensure victory for the APC.
Madu said: “We are here to also make a request to see to it that a credible, fee, free, transparent primary is conducted in Anambra State, and this is to avoid the pitfalls of 2021 where primaries were supposed to have been conducted and election results announced in the hotel rooms in which a candidate who got 300,000 votes in the primaries could not even get up to 50,000 votes during the contest against other parties.
“There is issue of insecurity in Anambra we speak, even the state government could not conduct their own local government elections due to insecurity.
“So we are here only requesting for the party to adopt an indirect primary method. Our constitution provides for that.”
