BEREAKING NEWS: Anambra 2025: PDP strategising for victory – Ex-chairman

A former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Anambra State, Chief Ndubuisi Nwobu, has said the party is strategising and working with some of the “best brains” to win the November 8, 2025, governorship election in the state.

Nwobu, who is the Secretary of the PDP Elders Council, also said while the state governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has done well in the area of infrastructural development, he failed in the area of security.

In an interview with journalists in Awka, on Friday, the PDP chieftain also disclosed that a meeting of the National Executive Committee of the party has been scheduled for May, during which decisions taken by the NWC will be ratified, adding that this will be followed by a national convention, at which new leadership is expected to emerge.

He explained that the function of a political party is to sponsor a candidate to run for an election, adding that the PDP is sponsoring a candidate for the Anambra State governorship election to win.

He said, “Anambra is one state where the PDP structure has not been in place for the past three to four years. I left office as the elected Chairman of PDP in Anambra State on December 2021 and from that time till October 2024, there was no elected Chairman of the party.

“You can imagine a party that has challenges in terms of leadership; it is bound to face more challenges. So, this is not the best time for our party, and that is the truth of the matter. In the midst of these challenges, the timing of the nomination of candidates arose.

“You will agree with me that people who will contest for the election will be sceptical when there is a leadership crisis, and that is where it affects our ability to put those who we will call ‘first eleven’ in the contest.

“Again, we should bear in mind that the PDP is a party that has its roots in Anambra State, when you remember the PDP foundation with Dr Alex Ekweme, who was the former Vice President of this country. He was the state block of the party, and that led the party to be loved by the Anambrarians.

“There is hardly in any home you go in Anambra State that you mention PDP, people have conscious of connecting to it. Even those you see in the other political parties have one connection to the other in the PDP. Even the current Governor of Anambra State once contested governorship election under the PDP. So, to this extent, don’t rule out the PDP. The PDP is preparing ground to ensure they are involved in the electioneering process in the state.”

On Soludo, he said, “We must give it to him. He has done well in the area of infrastructural development. You don’t take it away from him. Again there is area he has not done well. Let’s talk of security. He has not done well there. “Even last effort he made in the security in this election season, personally, I call it Aka-Odo style.”

Nwobu stated that modern-day security deserves more than what is on the ground as security in Anambra State, saying that if he were one of the advisers to the governor, he would tell him plainly.

“This is not kind of security Ndi Anambra needs for the modern day. We need a security that is technologically thrive. We need a security that if anything happens in Ifite road, within a period of two to three minutes, the whole access roads from Ifite roads would be blocked and the culprits would  be apprehended. When you put up such innovation, the criminals will on there own run away.

“I want to see Anambra State where Security is thriving by technology not these Agu-nechemba security. These days.  You can see some of them standing on the road and collecting money. Is it what we bargained for? That is not good for us. I said that these types of Security operation is archaic. Aka-Odo and Agu-nechemba is archaic. It is not our modern day security  require,” he said.

He further faulted the local government election in Anambra, conducted by Soludo in the state, adding that he changed Anambra State law through the house of Assembly just because his party APGA had challenges.