Anambra’s ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has reaffirmed its support for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s re-election bid in 2027 while pledging to contest legislative seats across the state against the All Progressives Congress (APC) and other political parties.
The strategy reflects the party’s position that it can maintain an alliance at the presidential level while competing for political power in state and federal legislatures.
The Anambra State Commissioner for Information and Value Reformation, Dr Law Mefor, stated this in an interview with Voice of Nigeria on Wednesday, arguing that Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo’s engagement with the Nigerian Government could help the South-East secure infrastructure investment, economic opportunities and greater representation in national development plans.
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Mefor explained that APGA’s preparations for the elections began after the November 2025 Anambra governorship election.
He said the party would field candidates for the Anambra State House of Assembly, the House of Representatives and all three senatorial districts while supporting President Tinubu at the presidential level.
APGA’s National Publicity Secretary, Mazi Ejimofor Opara, reaffirmed the position in October, declaring: “In Anambra, it is Tinubu for President, APGA for Senate, House of Representatives and State House of Assembly.”
The commissioner described Soludo’s alignment with President Tinubu as a continuation of APGA’s approach under successive administrations, noting that former governor Peter Obi worked with the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, while his successor, Willie Obiano, maintained relations with the government of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
“Soludo is only sustaining that same policy by working with Asiwaju, the President of Nigeria. Until the party sits down and abolishes that policy, it will continue,” Mefor said.
He maintained that political alliances should be driven by strategy rather than sentiment, arguing that the South-East needed sustained engagement with the Nigerian Government to advance its economic and infrastructure priorities.
Mefor cited proposed road projects and possible inclusion of the region in the national gas master plan as potential benefits of such cooperation.
“In politics, you don’t get what you deserve; you get what you negotiate,” he stressed.
The commissioner also rejected suggestions that APGA should abandon its legislative ambitions to support Obi’s anticipated presidential bid on the platform of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC).
Mefor questioned whether Obi’s political camp had initiated strategic engagement with APGA ahead of the elections, arguing that popularity alone could not guarantee victory without a nationwide party structure capable of protecting votes.
He urged the Anambra APC leadership, headed by Senator Emmanuel Anosike, to engage Governor Soludo over complaints that the party had been excluded from political cooperation and government structures in the state.
Offering to facilitate a meeting, Mefor maintained that dialogue would be more productive than public disagreements.
“The APC chairman should talk to Governor Soludo nicely to accommodate him in the plan,” he urged.
Anosike, however, has disputed claims of a working political alliance between APGA and the APC in Anambra.
In April 2026, the APC chairman called for party members to be included in state and local government leadership structures, arguing that the party had not been adequately accommodated.
The disagreement has persisted despite both parties’ support for President Tinubu’s re-election.
In a letter dated 13 October 2026, Anosike and other APC leaders challenged Soludo’s appointment as coordinator of President Tinubu’s presidential campaign in Anambra, arguing that an APGA governor in the role could create conflicting interests while APC candidates contested legislative seats against APGA candidates in the state.
Mefor, meanwhile, cited Soludo’s relationship with the Presidency and what he described as the governor’s recommendations for Bianca Ojukwu’s appointment as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Mark Okoye’s leadership of the South-East Development Commission as examples of the potential gains from political engagement.
The commissioner insisted that APGA would campaign across Anambra’s 21 local government areas and 326 electoral wards, stressing that its presidential alignment would not prevent it from competing against the APC and other parties for legislative representation.
“Politics is not emotion. Politics is not played with the heart; it is played with the head,” he said.
The position highlights a key challenge ahead of Nigeria’s 2027 general elections: how political parties can sustain alliances at the national level while competing for legislative power and influence within individual states.
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