The Editor
The Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has summoned stakeholders of the All Progressives Grand Alliance and the All Progressives Congress in the state to a joint meeting scheduled for Sunday, November 1, 2026.
Soludo, who is also the Anambra State Coordinator of the Presidential Campaign Committee, is convening the meeting as preparations for the 2027 general elections gather momentum.
The meeting, according to a circular dated October 22, 2026 and signed by the Chief of Staff to the Governor and Coordinator of the Secretariat for the Presidential Campaign Council in Anambra State, Dr Ben Nwankwo, will hold at the International Convention Centre, Awka.
Nwankwo stated that the meeting would commence at 1pm prompt, warning that all participants must be seated before the scheduled time, as the doors would be closed once proceedings begin.
According to him, accreditation will commence at 10am at the venue, with attendance restricted to duly accredited invitees.
The announcement read, “Governor of Anambra State and Coordinator of the Presidential Campaign Council, Anambra State, hereby announces a joint stakeholders’ meeting of APGA and APC in Anambra State.
“The meeting is open to current and former political officeholders and party officials who remain members of either APGA or APC, alongside other designated political stakeholders.
“Only accredited invitees will be allowed into the meeting. Current and former members who are still members of APGA or APC. Current and former governors and deputy governors of Anambra State who are still members of APGA or APC. Current and former NWC, ZWC, and SWC members of APGA and APC from Anambra State who are still members of APGA or APC.
“All APGA and APC candidates for the 2027 general election who are members of either party have also been invited.”
The list further includes current and former political appointees in the state and federal governments, members of the PBAT/APC Presidential Campaign Council from Anambra State, and serving and former elected local government chairmen, mayors and transition committee chairmen who remain members of either party.
Other invitees are current and former members of the Board of Trustees of APGA and APC from Anambra, coordinators of Tinubu support groups in the state, and serving local government chairmen, secretaries, women leaders and youth leaders of both parties.
Elected councillors, ward chairmen of APGA and APC, and members of the state working committee of the Accord Party and the Peoples Democratic Party are also listed.
The announcement added that selected stakeholders nominated by the state chairmen of APGA and APC, as well as others nominated by the state coordinator of the PCC, would attend the meeting.
“The announcement is intended to ensure that no eligible stakeholder could claim not to have been invited. All persons who fall within the listed categories were deemed invited.
“The joint meeting comes against the backdrop of political realignments and preparations by parties and their supporters ahead of the 2027 general election,” the announcement read.
