The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdulahi Ganduje, has called on the billionaires in Anambra State to be cautious in their actions during the party primaries scheduled to be held on April 5, 2025.

Ganduje acknowledged their wealth and appealed to them not to use their money to disrupt the party ahead of the election.

He made these remarks on Tuesday, February 4, 2025, during a courtesy call by the support group known as ‘Booth to Booth with Bola Tinubu’.

The chairman assured that the polls will be free, fair and transparent. 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.”

The National Coordinator of the group, Iyke Madu, appealed to the National Working Committee to adopt an indirect mode of primary to elect the party’s candidate due to the insecurity in the state.

Madu explained, “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.”