The National Working Committee of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has announced that it will be holding the 2025 governorship primary election for Anambra State today, Saturday, April 5, 2025.

This was contained in a statement signed by the National Organizing Secretary/Secretary, Electoral Committee 2025, Ifeanyi Mbaeri.

He said that the Primary Election shall be held at the Dr Alex Ekwueme Square, Awka, adding that the National Working Committee has further constituted a 5-man Electoral Committee headed by Chief Uche Nwegbo (Deputy National Chairman, South) to oversee the conduct of the exercise.

The statement reads in part: ?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 12noon. Any Delegate or Observer who is not in 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 Primary 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.

?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.? (Channels TV)

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