Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has officially emerged as the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate for the upcoming governorship election scheduled for November 8, 2025.
The incumbent, who faced no opposition in the party primary, which was held in Awka on Saturday, polled over 300 votes.
Voting was conducted for the delegates from all the 21 local government areas in the state to either tick yes or no on the ballot. After the voting exercise, votes were sorted and counted.
Announcing the result of the exercise, the chairman of the electoral panel, Uche Nwegbo, said that the total number of delegates for the primary was 3,260, total number of accredited delegates 3,175, total number of votes cast 3,172, total number of invalid votes 4, total number of yes votes cast 3,168, and total number of no votes cast nil.
With the result, Nwegbo declared Soludo as the governorship candidate for APGA in November 8, 2025, election to rousing cheers from the crowd.
‘I accept the nomination’
Rising to a loud cheer after the announcement of his nomination to run for a second term in office, Governor Soludo took to the podium to give a speech where he accepted the nomination.
He said, “I wan to sincerely, with every deepest sense of humility, give gratitude to the Almighty God for His grace upon our lives, the God that gave Nigeria APGA, gave Anambra State APGA, and we said this is our own.
“With utmost gratitude to Him, utmost surrender to Him, in humility, I want to say that I’m humbled by this unprecedented historic display of solidarity, support, and overwhelming mandate given to me again by our party again to be able to fly its flag for the forthcoming election. And I want to say with humility, I accept the nomination.
“Let’s do it again together, let’s continue with the progressive movement in Anambra, Anambra is rising under the democratic leadership that we have here.”
The governor also confirmed that he will retain his current deputy, Onyeka Ibezim, as his running mate in the forthcoming election.
The full list of candidates in the November polls will become clearer once other political parties complete their primaries.
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