Photo caption: President Tinubu meets APC Guber Candidate In Anambra, Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu (white), and running mate, Senator Uche Ekwunife (middle). Photo: APC, X
The All Progressives Grand Alliance has told the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the Anambra State governorship election, Nicholas Ukachukwu, that federal might will not save him from defeat in the November 8, 2025 governorship election.
Recall that the APC candidate, Ukachukwu, on Monday, said his party is set to defeat the incumbent Governor Chukwuma Soludo at the November 8 governorship elections.
Ukachukwu, who stated this after he and his running mate, Uche Ekwunife, met with President Bola Tinubu, premised his claim on the wide support for his candidacy, especially from supporters who joined him to defect from the APGA, Soludo’s party, to the APC.
“When I left APGA, I left with all my supporters. That makes APC stronger,” Ukachukwu told State House correspondents after Tinubu handed him the symbolic APC flag at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja, on Monday.
The APC candidate said he was more than ready to deliver Anambra to the APC and end what he described as the state’s “one-party system.”
However, reacting to the development in a press statement released on Tuesday, the National Coordinator, APGA Media Warriors Forum, Chinedu Obigwe, averred that Ukachukwu is desperately hatching a plot to rig the November 8 governorship election, thinking “presidential might” will help him.
Obigwe also insisted that the move by the APC National Chairman, Umar Ganduje, to package Ukachukwu and his running mate before Tinubu at the Villa will not save them from defeat.
The statement read, “Ukachukwu is desperately hatching a plot to rig the November 8 governorship election with Presidential might because he knows very well that he is not electable and that there is no gospel that he can preach to Anambra electorates that will make them vote for him.
“Ganduje packaging of Ukachukwu and his running mate, Senator Uche Ekwunife, like ‘Belgium rats’ for presentation to President Tinubu at the villa, will not save them from defeat. Ukachukwu will lose the forthcoming November 8 governorship election woefully.
“Not even his packaging like by Ganduje for presentation to Tinubu can save him from the defeat that is staring him at the face. President Tinubu has nothing to do with his financially induced emergence as an Anambra APC governorship candidate.
“We will continue saying this without minding whose ox is gored. Ukachukwu will be rejected at the poll. Especially now that the people of the State are enjoying dividends of good governance from Governor Soludo’s administration.”
“Anambra is now the envy of other states in Nigeria, courtesy of Soludo’s good work in our state. Those supporting Ukachukwu’s mission in our state are enemies of the state, and they will be defeated as common enemies by patriotic citizens of Anambra State on November 8.
“No vacancy in Anambra State government house. It is Governor Soludo for Governor or nothing till March 17, 2030.”
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