The Anambra off-circle governorship election has commenced today, Saturday, November 8, 2025, in 5,718 of the 5720 Polling Units.
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Joash Amupitan, on several occasions, reaffirmed the Commission’s total readiness for the Anambra State Governorship.
He said that the Commission has deployed a total of 24,000 personnel for the polls and that the election will be held in 5,718 of the 5720 PUs, citing a lack of voters at the two PUs left out.
Anambra is one of the eight states where elections are held outside of the general election timetable, which includes Bayelsa, Kogi, Anambra, Imo, Osun, Ondo, Edo, and Ekiti.
Anambra joined in off-circle governorship election in 2003 after the court sacked Chris Ngige, a candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who was declared the winner of the state governorship election and installed Peter Obi of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, after a two-year tribunal case at the Court of Appeal in Enugu.
About sixteen candidates have been listed by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to run for this year’s election.
- Onyeeze Chidi – A
- Nweke Ezechukwu – Japhet – AA
- Ifemeludike Chioma Grace – AAC
- Nwosu Chima John – ADC
- Ukachukwu Nicholas – APC
- Soludo Charles – APGA
- Otti Cyprian Echezona – APM.
- Nweke Christopher
Chukwudubem – APP - Okeke Chika Jerry – BP
- Moghalu George – LP
- Onyejgbu Geoffrey – NNPP
- Ndidi Christy Olieh – NRM
- Ezenwafor Jude – PDP
- Chukwurah Vincent – SDP
- Chukwuma Paul Chukwuka -YPP and last but not the least,
- Ugwoji Uchenna – ZLP
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