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Do not use your wealth to destabilize APC, Ganduje warns aspirants

As the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) begins preparation  for the November 8 governorshiip election in Anambra statute, national chairman of the party,  Abdulahi Ganduje has called on all the governorshiip aspirants to channel their heavy financial weight to promoting those values that would guarantee to victory for the party, rather than flexing muscles that could destabilize and cost it victory at the polls
The APC chairman urged the intending billionaire aspirants in Anambra State not to use their money to scatter the party ahead of the governorship primary fixed for April 5, 2025.
This is as the  chairman also assured that the ruling party would conduct a free, fair and transparent primary election.
Ganduje made the call on Tuesday in Abuja when he received an APC support group, under the aegis of ‘Booth to Booth with Bola Tinubu’.
He stated: “As a party, if we are to have good primary in the state, all our stakeholders are supposed to be born again. We told them that this time around, business should not be as usual. Let us support the system.
“We know they are very rich, they have a lot of money, but they should not use the money to scatter the state.
“They should not use the money to scatter the state but to develop the state and build APC. In fact, I will be highly interested if they can produce a candidate, consensus, I will give them an award.
“You mention the option of direct or indirect primary. As an institution, I assure you, we will sit down and the National Working Committee in conjunction with the leadership of the party, we will come back with whichever method for the primary.”
Earlier, the National Coordinator of the group, Iyke Madu, urged the National Working Committee to adopt indirect mode of primary to elect the candidate of the party due to the insecurity in the state.
He said the state government was unable to conduct the local government elections due to the insecurity.
Madu stated: “There is issue of insecurity in Anambra as we speak, even the state government could not conduct their own local government elections due to insecurity.
“They wrote to certain communities telling them that, due to insecurity, elections cannot be conducted in those places.
“And we are thinking, if a state government cannot conduct their own local government elections due to insecurity, it’s going to be difficult for a party that does not control the state to do direct primaries.
“So we are here only requesting for the party to make these primaries indirect primaries. Our constitution provides for that.”