Anambra Showdown 2025: Opposition parties are mere participants, not contestants — APGA

By Vincent Ujumadu

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has dismissed absorption parties preparing for the November 8 governorship predetermination successful Anambra State, describing them arsenic “mere participants” alternatively than superior contenders.

The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mazi Ejimofor Opara, stated this successful Awka, noting that APGA remains the ascendant governmental unit successful the authorities and the South East.

Opara argued that the illness of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) successful the portion should not astonishment anyone, fixed the interior crises that person plagued the enactment successful caller years.

He besides claimed that the All Progressives Congress (APC), contempt its ambition to instrumentality implicit Anambra, is facing interior discord betwixt the camps of its governorship campaigner and moving mate.

“They are simply participating, not genuinely contesting. The caller by-elections demonstrated this, arsenic the candidates of the absorption performed poorly successful their respective wards. That mock predetermination exposed the hollowness of their claims and has acceptable the code for the November 8 governorship canvass successful Anambra State,” Opara said.

Commenting connected the caller defection of Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State from the PDP to the APC, Opara said the determination was not unexpected, citing ongoing interior divisions wrong the PDP from the nationalist to the authorities level.

He dismissed insinuations that Governor Chukwuma Soludo mightiness defect to different governmental party, insisting that the politician remains firmly committed to APGA’s ideals.

“For america successful APGA, this is simply a question that has produced 3 consecutive governors and volition nutrient much successful the adjacent future. In Anambra State, the lone enactment that has consistently maintained its stronghold is APGA — nary different enactment tin assertion that,” helium stated.

Opara described suggestions that APGA was losing crushed successful the authorities arsenic a “recurring chant” by struggling absorption parties who, helium said, “rely connected falsehood for comfort.”

“What other tin you expect from the absorption astatine a clip similar this? Their stock-in-trade is propaganda. Make nary mistake — they volition yet fail, and APGA volition ever triumph. We volition not beryllium distracted by their rantings, nor volition we beryllium intimidated by their antics,” helium added.

He besides noted that some APGA and APC stock progressive ideologies and collaborate connected nationalist issues, making it unnecessary for Governor Soludo to see leaving APGA.

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