APC picks Anyim, Masari to chair 2026 presidential primary committees

By Omeiza Ajayi

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has named former Senate President, Anyim Pius Anyim, chairman of a seven-member Presidential Primary Election Committee.

Other members of the committee include Sen. Ken Nnamani, Sen. Victor Udo Udoma, H.E. Otunba Grace Titi Laoye-Ponle, Rev. Jolly Nyame, and Idris Wada as members, and Mr. Sanusi Musa as Secretary.

The party stated this in a notice signed by the party’s National Secretary, Ajibola Basiru.

A Presidential Primary Election Appeal Committee was also set up, with Hon. Aminu Masari as Chairman, Mr. Samuel Piwuna as Secretary, and Hon. Patricia Olubunmi Etteh as member.

Thirty-seven Coordinators and Collation Officers were deployed across the states and the FCT. The list includes prominent party figures serving as coordinators in their states — among them Sen. Hope Uzodimma, for Imo State; Alh. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, for Kwara State; Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum for Borno State; Sen. Bassey Otu for Cross River State; Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu for Lagos State; Sen. Monday Okpebholo for Edo State; Sen. Uba Sani for Kaduna State; Sir Siminalaji Fubara for Rivers State; Hon. Yakubu Dogara for Bauchi State; Hon. Benjamin Kalu for Abia State; and Sen. Phillip Aduda for the FCT, among others.

The presidential primaries on Saturday will be held simultaneously across all 8,809 wards in the country as the party moves to pick its 2027 presidential candidate in what appears to be a coronation of the incumbent.

Under the procedure outlined in the notice, every registered APC member in each of the 8,809 wards will be eligible to cast a vote for the presidential aspirant of their choice — a departure from the delegate-based model that has historically concentrated the power of nomination in the hands of a few party officials and delegates.

Results from each ward will be collated at the local government level by officers appointed jointly by the State Coordinator and the National Working Committee NWC.

State Coordinators and Collation Officers will then aggregate results from all local governments in their states and present them to the Presidential Primary Election Committee in Abuja on the same day.

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