Anambra guber: NRM faults INEC final list, says we have no governorship candidate

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Chief Edozie Njoku, the National Rescue Mission’s (NRM) national chairman, has stated that the party does not yet have a candidate for the upcoming Anambra gubernatorial election.

The name that INEC released in its final list of candidates for the election on Wednesday, he said, was obtained illegally and is unacceptable.

In an emergency national congress of the party convened in Abuja on January 17, 2025, ZINGTIE announced that Njoku, National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA had left the party and was elected as the new National Chairman of the NRM.

A Federal High Court in Abuja upheld his stance, directing INEC to acknowledge the NRM leadership that resulted from the party’s emergency national convention.

Remember that the purpose of the emergency convention was to rectify the imbalance in the party’s makeup and fill open slots in the National Executive Committee, or NEC.

Similar to INEC’s actions during the convention, the electoral authority declined to acknowledge or even challenge the court ruling requiring it to acknowledge the party’s new leadership.

In a ruling, Justice Obiora Egwatu criticized INEC’s stance and directed it to acknowledge and accept Edozie Njoku’s leadership.

INEC was the only respondent in a complaint brought by the NRM with the suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/45/2025.

However, INEC acknowledged 40-year-old Ndidi Christy Olieh as the NRM’s flagbearer for the election and Ogbe Ekene Reginald as her deputy in its final list of candidates for governorship and their deputies, which was released on Wednesday.

Speaking to media in Abuja on Wednesday, Edozie declared that his party would not tolerate the illegality. He further stated that the party leadership is unaware of and unrelated to the candidates the electoral umpire had named as its flag bearers.

“NRM has no candidate for the Anambra state governorship election,” Chief Njoku declared.

“There’s no candidate at all.

“But INEC now went behind and got the Secretary to bring a candidate,” he said, explaining that all efforts made for the candidates to come from the right channel were blocked by the Mahmood Yakubu-led INEC.

“So how can you tell me that NRM has a candidate?” He queried.

“We’re getting our recognition from INEC sooner than you think, then we’ll be doing the mathematics on that,” he said.

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