APC has vowed to reclaim Edo State which it lost in 2020 in the September 21 governorship election and maintain its grip on Ondo State at this year’s guber polls.
Deputy national organising secretary of APC, Nze Chidi Duru, who said this in an interview with journalists in Abuja at the weekend also said the party is positioned to win the 2025 Anambra governorship election.
Duru said to achieve these electoral feats, the APC will conduct credible primaries to nominate a popular candidate that appeals to all tendencies in those states.
He said, “There will be an election not just in Anambra next year but there will be an election in the next six to seven months, particularly in Edo state and Ondo state and after that it will be the off season election in Anambra state. And the party is working harder to see and make sure that as a minimum we will win the two states that are available this year.
“Everything is being done, one is to make sure that we have a credible primaries that will throw up our gubernatorial candidate in both elections, whether it is in Edo state and Ondo state. What this supposed to taught us is, unless we have a candidate that appeals to the people, then you will not be able to find that appeal that would attract the electorate to vote for the candidate in the ultimate election.
“So as a principle, the National Working Committee (NWC) has come to that conclusion that we must allow a free, fair, transparent primaries to throw the candidate of the party in the two election in question.”
