As Party Endorses Uzodimma for Imo West Senate Seat
By Tony Ezike
The Anambra State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has constituted a 230-member Presidential Campaign Council ahead of the 2027 general elections, with Senator Uche Ekwunife, CON, joining an impressive list of prominent political figures mobilised to drive President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s re-election campaign.
Ekwunife, the APC candidate for Anambra Central Senatorial District in the 2027 elections and South-East Zonal Director of Election Planning, Coordination and Monitoring of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, is among the prominent members of the newly constituted Anambra State council.
Other notable members include former Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige; Senator Margery Okadigbo; Senator Joy Emordi; Chief Azuka Okwuosa; former Labour Party governorship candidate and former Managing Director of the Nigerian Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), Chief George Moghalu; and the Deputy National Organising Secretary of the APC, Barr. Emeka Okafor, among others.
The council is headed by the Anambra State APC Chairman, Senator Emma Anosike.
The inclusion of Senator Ngige in the council has effectively dispelled speculations that the former Minister was excluded from the state’s mobilisation structure for President Tinubu’s re-election. It also confirms the return of Chief George Moghalu, who contested the Anambra governorship election on the platform of the Labour Party, to his former political party, the APC.
The constitution of the 230-member council underscores the party’s determination to consolidate its political structure, strengthen grassroots mobilisation and bring influential stakeholders together ahead of the 2027 presidential election.
According to a statement signed by Senator Anosike, the Presidential Campaign Council has been divided into several departments and units, including Patrons of the Council, Advisory Department, and Media and Strategy Department.
Anosike explained that the size of the council was deliberately designed to accommodate all stakeholders and ensure collective participation in the campaign for President Tinubu’s re-election.
“We are deliberate about the size of the Presidential Campaign Council, and this is aimed at making sure that all hands are on deck in the re-election of our President.”
“This is in furtherance to sustaining the massive and humongous infrastructural revolution that is currently going on in Anambra, and with the calibre of people in this Campaign Council, we are home and dry on the 16th of January next year,” Anosike stated.
In another major political development, the Anambra APC chairman announced the party’s endorsement of Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, for the Imo West Senatorial District seat.
The party expressed confidence that Uzodimma’s political experience and administrative capacity would bring significant value to the National Assembly, particularly in strengthening legislative representation and advancing the interests of his constituents.
“We have no doubt in our minds that the candidacy of Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State for the Imo West Senatorial District is one that will make great impact on the people. Being a ranking Senator, his wealth of experience would be brought to bear at the hallowed chambers,” Anosike said.
