The National Working Committee of the All Progressives
Grand Alliance has fixed tomorrow, Saturday, April 5, 2025, as the date for the
Anambra governorship primary election.
The party has also released the modalities for the
conduct of the exercise.
According to a statement signed by the National
Organising Secretary/Secretary, Electoral Committee 2025, Ifeanyi Mbaeri, on
Friday, the primary election shall be held at the Dr Alex Ekwueme Square, Awka,
the state capital.
Mbaeri said the National Working Committee has further
constituted a five-man electoral committee headed by APGA’s Deputy National
Chairman, South, Chief Uche Nwegbo, to oversee the conduct of the exercise.
The statement reads: “In that regard, the APGA
Electoral Committee for 2025 Anambra Governorship Primary Election hereby
issues the following modalities for the smooth conduct of the exercise.
“The primary election shall commence at 8am prompt
with accreditation of delegates and observers. The accreditation exercise shall
take place outside the premises of Dr Alex Ekwueme Square, Awka on the tarred
road leading to the New Government House.
“Accreditation of delegates and observers shall run
from 8am until its closure by noon. Any Delegate or Observer who is not on
queue before 12noon shall not be accredited.
“Only duly accredited delegates and observers shall be
allowed access into the premises of Dr Alex Ekwueme Square. Non-delegates or
observers are warned not to be seen anywhere near the said venue of orimary
election.
“All delegates and observers are required to present a
valid means of Identification before they can be accredited. Valid means of
identification include National ID Card, international passport, voter’s card
or any other government issued means of Identification. Delegates and observers
shall be mandatorily required to wear their tags around their neck at all times
during the primary election.
“All duly accredited Delegates shall be seated at
designated stands of their respective Local Government Areas at the pavilion.
The said Stand of each LGA shall be clearly marked and easily identifiable. All
Observers shall be seated at the Stand designated for Observers.
“It is compulsory for Delegates to be seated at the
designated Stands of their respective LGAs at all times during the exercise.
Thus, all elected National Assembly members, House of Assembly members, Mayors,
Councillors and all other elected officials, who are Delegates, must be seated
with other Delegates of the LGA at the designated Stand.”
The statement added, “is Voting shall be balloting.
Delegates are therefore required to tick either ‘YES’ or ‘NO’ at the
appropriate column of the ballot paper.
“Voting shall be conducted in an orderly and civilised
manner. To that end, Voting shall be conducted LGA by LGA in alphabetical
order.
“At the end of Voting, the ballots/votes shall be
sorted, counted and result declared by the Electoral Committee.
“The APGA 2025 Governorship Primary election shall be
conducted in strict compliance with the 1999 Constitution of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria, the Electoral Act, 2022 and INEC Guidelines/Regulations
for Political Party Primaries.
“To that end, all Delegates and Observers are
mandatorily required to strictly comply with these Modalities/Guidelines.”
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