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admin National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Abdullahi Ganduje has said that Anambra State is long overdue due to be at the mainstream of national politics.
He stated this yesterday while inaugurating the state’s consultative council of the party in Abuja.
Ganduje noted that the state is one of the most strategic in the country that should not be left in the hands of opposition parties.
To this end, he urged party leaders and members to ensure the defeat of Governor Chukwuma Soludo in next year’s governorship election. The APC leader argued that it was politically incorrect for a region with five states to be controlled by four different parties.
The APC has two states in the region, while the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Labour Party (LP) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) hold sway each in the remaining three states.
Ganduje admonished party faithful that the defeat of the APGA-led administration in the governorship would be a step in the right direction to giving a bargaining power to the region in the mainstream politics.
He said: “With this division, what is your bargaining power in politics at the centre? What is your political investment? This is the crux of the matter. It is time the region come to the centre of Nigerian politics.
“Once we can leverage politically for APC, we assure you that what happened in second republic would also happen to the Southeast.
“I beckon on all to come out strong and support the repositioning of this party, for the overall interest of members, and the betterment of the people of Anambra.”
Deputy National Organising Secretary of the party, Nze Chidi Duru, expressed confidence that the party is now in good stead to upstage APGA as its ranks is now more united and solid.
State chairman Chief Bazil Ejike enjoined the council members to begin to draw up strategies that will enable the party to collectively confront the task of taking over the seat of governance in 2025.
“It is pertinent to reiterate that the party has a target, which is to take over the Agu Awka Government House. All hands must be on deck, especially in this Council, which is a boardroom of sorts for incubation of ideas for the good and benefit of the Party,” Ejike said.
