Anambra: Nwosu withdraws from LP primary election

One of the two governorship aspirants of the Labour Party for the forthcoming November 8, 2025, Anambra State election, John Nwosu, has withdrawn from the party’s primary election slated for today (Saturday).

Nwosu, in a press statement made available to journalists on Friday, alleged that several irregularities have trailed the planning for the conduct of the primary election.

According to him, the irregularities included non-compliance with the party’s constitution and the guidelines of the Independent National Electoral Commission for the conduct of such exercise.

Nwosu said, “There was no delegates congress of the party held in any the 21 local government areas of the state to elect the delegates to vote at the primary election and a list of delegates eventually emerged and pasted at the state headquarters of the party in Awka, just about eight hours to the D-Day, Saturday, April 5, 2025.”

He also noted that the planning for the governorship primary was illegally supervised by the former national chairman of the party, Julius Abure, during the period his tenure had expired following the Friday’s verdict of the Supreme Court, which sacked him a day to the planned governorship primary election.

He argued that all the activities of Abure-led LP during the period after his tenure expired were tainted with “illegality”.

Nwosu said he decided to withdraw from the party’s governorship primary so as to protect his integrity and principled Christian values.

PUNCH Online reports that following Nwosu’s withdrawal from the LP governorship primary, only the former managing director of the National Inland Waterways, George Moghalu, is left to contest in the exercise unopposed.

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