PDP announces winner of Anambra guber primary

Abuja-based real estate developer, Chief Jude Ezenwafor, has been declared the flag-bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the November 8, 2025, Anambra State governorship election.

Ezenwafor emerged unopposed during the party’s governorship primary held on Tuesday at the Prof. Dora Akunyili Women Development Centre in Awka. The exercise was overseen by Col. Chijioke Onwubuya (rtd), who led the PDP national committee appointed to conduct the primary.

According to Onwubuya, Ezenwafor was the sole aspirant who purchased and submitted the party’s nomination forms, thereby making him the automatic candidate for the PDP in the forthcoming election.

A total of 853 delegates made up 839 elected from the 21 local government areas of the State and 14 national delegates were accredited to take part in the primary election.

Though Ezenwafor was the lone contestant, each delegate was issued a ballot paper to write the name of the candidate he or she preferred. The delegates cast their votes of affirmation local government area by local government area while the national delegates were the first to cast their ballots.

With the latest emergence of the PDP flag-bearer, a total of four political parties have so far nominated candidates for the Anambra State gubernatorial election.

Recall that the ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) had earlier affirmed the incumbent governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, as its candidate for the contest; All Progressives Congress (APC) chose Prince Nicolas Ukachukwu; Labour Party (LP) nominated the former managing director of the Nigeria Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), Chief George Muoghalu, while the African Action Congress (AAC) has the only female candidate so far in the race, Miss Chioma Ifemuludike, as its flag-bearer.

It was observed that some officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were present at venue of the governorship primaries of each of the political parties.