..set 20 March to 10 April 2025 for Party Primaries
From David Onuoja, Abuja
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has fixed November Saturday 8, 2025 as date for Anambra gubernatorial election.
The Chairman of the Commission, Mahmood Yakubu, who revealed this during the last and an extraordinary consultation meeting held with the political parties at the INEC headquarters, Abuja said, the Party Primaries will hold from 20 March, to 10 April, 2025.
According to him, “In compliance with the mandatory requirement of 360 days, the formal notice for the election will be published on 13th November 2024.
“Party primaries will be held from 20th March 2025 to 10th April 2025. The candidate nomination portal will open at 9.00am on 18th April 2025 and close at 6.00pm on 12th May 2025. While the final list of candidates will be published on 9th June 2025.
“Campaign in public by political parties will commence on 11th June 2025 and end at midnight of Thursday 6th November 2025. Voting will take place in all the 5,720 Polling Units across the State on Saturday 8th November 2025”, Yakubu said.
He added that, in the coming weeks, the Commission will provide details of other electoral activities, including the registration of new voters, transfer of voters and the replacement of lost or damaged PVCs.
“I urge political parties to use the INEC Timetable and come up with their own Timetable and Schedule of Activities to enable us work together and plan better for the deployment of personnel and resources for the monitoring of their party primaries and campaign activities.”
On the Ondo state forthcoming election, he said, “we are working in earnest to ensure that we deliver the identification tags for each of the 24,148 agents uploaded to our portal.
He therefore, appealed to political parties to support the Commission in mobilising registered voters to collect their PVCs.
Saying, to make the process easier, “we have also uploaded the register containing the names and photographs of new voters (fresh registrants, transfers and applications for replacement of lost or damaged PVCs) to our website to facilitate a seamless collection of the cards”, Mahmood averred.
