The Anambra State Independent Electoral Commission (ANSIEC) has fixed 29 August 2026 for section authorities assembly chairmanship and councillorship elections successful Anambra State.
The Chairperson of the ANSIEC, Genevieve Osakwe, announced this successful a connection connected Wednesday.
Mrs Osakwe, a main magistrate, said the workout was successful enactment with Section 28(1) of the Electoral Act 2022 and Section 23 of the Anambra State Electoral Law 2024, which empowered the committee to contented predetermination notices.
“The predetermination timetable and docket of activities volition beryllium disposable for postulation astatine the commission’s bureau opening Friday, 28 November 2025.
“We telephone connected each governmental parties to commencement obtaining their information forms from the assemblage on the Enugu-Awka Expressway,” she said.
Previous election
The committee conducted the past section assembly elections connected 28 September 2024.
PREMIUM TIMES reported that, during the predetermination past year, the ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) successful Anambra State won each the electoral positions contested for.
This paper besides reported that the predetermination was the archetypal successful the past 10 years successful the South-eastern state.
Before the September 2024 poll, the past section authorities predetermination successful Anambra State was held in January 2014 nether the medication of erstwhile Governor Peter Obi.
Mr Obi served betwixt 2006 and 2014 nether the APGA platform.
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Until the September 2024 poll, each the 21 section authorities areas successful Anambra State had been administered by caretaker committees usually appointed by successive governors.
Meanwhile, the September 2024 canvass was seemingly successful effect to a Supreme Court ruling successful July 2024, which affirmed the fiscal autonomy of Nigeria’s 774 section governments.
The Supreme Court held that the section governments crossed the state should, henceforth, person their allocations straight from the Accountant-General of the Federation.
The ruling empowers the national authorities to withhold allocations of section governments being administered by caretaker committees.
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