Onitsha - In a move geared towards ensuring that all hands are carried along in its move towards taking over Anambra government from APGA, the All Progressives Congress has commenced membership register revalidation exercise across the 21 local government areas of the state.
State Chairman of the Party, Chief Basil Ejidike represented by the Deputy State Secretary of the party, Engr. Sam Oraegbunam disclosed this yesterday in Nnobi, Idemili South LGA during the Homecoming Event organized by the party to welcome new entrants and receive back former members of the party who decamped to other parties.
The APC Chairman stated that the party is poised to not only win election but form the next government in Anambra State and with the unity of members in selecting the best candidate among the array of what he described as “7 over qualified” aspirants, the party will surely triumph during the November 8, 2025 election.
A grassroots politician and community leader, Chief Obiora Okpala in a remark said the homecoming event signifies the show of strength and unity of the party members in not only Wards 1, 2 and 3 in Nnobi but the entire people of Idemili South LGA towards winning the November 8 election.
Okpala said Nnobi is strategic in election winning in Idemili South LGA while their coming together in the homecoming is a reaffirmation of their readiness to take over the Awka government house.
He expressed delight that the people of Anambra state have come to embrace APC in this political dispensation while the right narrative about APC is now being told, a clear departure from what it used to be when the ruling party in the state often branded the party in a negative light in order to continue reaping the political gains.
“Today is Afor Nnobi market day but more than 5000 people gathered here today to express their eagerness and readiness to connect with the party at the federal level in Anambra. Our people are ready to move on because the narrative that Anambra belongs to a particular party that has been in government is being changed today” he said.
APC Zonal Welfare Officer, Anambra South, Mrs Nonye Ndinechi while welcoming the decampees described politics as a game of numbers and expressed optimism that the returnees will swell the chances of the party to victory in the next election.
Another state officer of the party, Okwudilichukwu Oguejiofor disclosed that former members of APGA, PDP and Labour Party were among those who joined APC in the homecoming event.
