The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced 8th November 2025 as the date for the Governorship Election in Anambra State.
The Hon. Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu announced this during the Commission’s Quarterly Consultative Meeting with political party leaders held at the INEC Headquarters, Abuja on Thursday, 17th October 2024.
He recalled that the last Governorship Election in Anambra State was held on 6th November 2021 and explained that “by the effluxion of time, the Governorship Election is due next year. Consequently, the Commission has approved that the 2025 Anambra State Governorship Election will hold on Saturday 8th November 2025.”
While discussing the schedule of activities for the Anambra Governorship Election, Prof. Yakubu said that “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 9.00 am on 18th April 2025 and close at 6.00 pm on 12th May 2025. 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.”
He added: “Voting will take place in all the Five Thousand Seven Hundred and Twenty (5,720) Polling Units across the State on Saturday, 8th November 2025. 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. The detailed Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the 2025 Anambra State Governorship Election will be uploaded to our website and social media platforms before the end of this meeting’’.
Addressing party Chairmen and their Secretaries present, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu said “I urge political parties to use the INEC Timetable to come up with your 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 your party primaries and campaign activities. By doing so, you will avoid the last-minute rush with the attendant inability to meet deadlines. We will discuss this important matter at this meeting.”
Regarding the Ondo Governorship Election, he appealed to political parties to support the Commission in mobilising registered voters to collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs). According to the INEC Chairman “For the next five days (17th – 21st October 2024), the cards will be available for collection at each of the Two Hundred and Three (203) Wards across the State. Thereafter, the cards will be available for collection in our Eighteen (18) Local Government Area offices in the State for one week (23rd - 29th October 2024).”
“As earlier announced, the centres will be open to citizens from 9am – 5pm daily. A document containing the names and location addresses of the Two Hundred and Twenty One (221) collection centres has already been uploaded to our website for public information. Hard copies are also included in your folders for this meeting. “
“As usual, we appeal to political parties to support the Commission in mobilising registered voters to collect their PVCs. 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,” he added.
In response, the National Chairman of the Inter-party Advisory Council (IPAC), Alh. Yusuf Mamman Dantalle tasked INEC to up the ante in the conduct of the Ondo Governorship Election. According to him, Nigerians expect INEC to improve on the upcoming Ondo State gubernatorial poll on Saturday, 16th November 2024.
He also urged all stakeholders in the electoral process to join in voter education, sensitisation and mobilisation to ensure a free, fair, credible, transparent, inclusive and peaceful election that will meet international standards.
Alh. Dantalle assured that “IPAC will lead from the front in voter mobilisation as a major stakeholder and urges political parties and their candidates to imbibe issue-based campaigns and eschew politics of bitterness.”
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