Anambra Guber: APC Members Not Worried About Indirect Primaries-Awogu

By Praise Chinecherem

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Anambra State, Sir Arinze Awogu has endorsed any method the party would adopt for the April 5 primary of the party ahead of the November 8 governorship election in the state.

Awogu, a National Coordinator of Ikemba Front said this in a statement he released in Awka in response to some attempts by some faceless agents working for the opposition parties in the State but masquerading as members of the party who are jittery over possible adoption of indirect primaries of the party in the State.

He said, “These people are afraid that indirect primary may not favour their plot against the party’s determination to win the November 8, 2025 election.

“The mode of primaries used in the election of candidates are determined by prevailing circumstances surrounding the primaries and the election proper, and like the Anambra State Working Committee of the party has suggested, indirect primaries best suits the situation at the moment.

“Whichever way we exercise our franchise, what we are actually doing is voting for persons within our constituencies or localities to act or speak for us as we all can not be there to act or speak.

“We all can’t go to Abuja to agree on every national issue or every national issue brought to our doorsteps before a deal is made. That would be anarchical”.
He said it is such delegate method that market associations or town union meetings use in their elections.

“It is all about representatives of every home, most often the fathers, come together to make decisions for every member of the society. So also, are delegates elected by party members from the political wards. There is nothing less democratic about indirect primaries.”

Awogu spoke against the backdrop of a baseless accusation of undue pressure on the members of the National Working Committee of the party to adopt indirect primaries, insisting that those attempting to blackmail the members of the National Working Committee of the party are agents of opposition parties who are crying wolf when none existed and whose dispositions were designed to favour the opposition parties while pretending to be members of APC in the state.

He said the accusation exists only in the figment of the imaginations of the agents working for the opposition parties in the state.

The former chairman of Ogbaru Local Government Areas of the state assured that members of the party in Anambra State are ready for indirect primary, urging the National Working Committee of the party to go ahead with indirect primary for the April 5, governorship primary election of the party in Anambra State.

“The process of picking a representative comes in two valid forms: direct and indirect and Section 84 (2) of the Electoral Act 2022 (as amended) provides that the procedure for nominating candidates by political parties for the various elective positions shall be by: ” direct, indirect primaries or consensus.” argued Sir Awogu.

He urged the party to go ahead with indirect primaries that suits the situation, as members of the party in Anambra State are willing to go with the choice of the party.