The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Abdulahi Ganduje has urged the billionaires in Anambra State not to use their money to scatter the party ahead of the governorship primary fixed for April 5, 2025.

 

The chairman also assured that the ruling party would conduct a free, fair and transparent primary election.

 

Ganduje spoke on Tuesday in Abuja during a courtesy call by the a support group known as ‘Booth to Booth with Bola Tinubu’.

 

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.”

 

Earlier, the National Coordinator of the group, Iyke Madu, urged the National Working Committee to adopt indirect mode of primary to elect the candidate of the party due to the insecurity in the state.

 

He said the state government was unable to conduct the local government elections due to the insecurity.

 

Madu stated: “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.”