Governor Peter Mbah was on Friday formally declared the All Progressives Congress, APC, gubernatorial candidate for the 2027 Enugu State governorship election. The declaration came after 397,370 accredited party faithful across the state’s 260 wards participated in the primary election conducted on Thursday.
At the International Conference Centre, Enugu, where results were collated, the Mr Danmalikin Hausa-led Enugu State APC Governorship Primary Election Committee described the process as peaceful, credible, and a model for internal democracy.
Mr Hausa called the Enugu APC a “well-coordinated chapter where internal democracy, consensus-building, discipline, synergy and peace reign supreme” and said the entire exercise was rancour-free and indeed a carnival of sorts. For many delegates, the outcome was less a political contest than a referendum on the governor’s first-term stewardship.
In his acceptance speech, Mr Mbah said the moment was not one he took for granted. “There was never a sense of entitlement,” he told the gathering. “I accept this nomination with full awareness of the expectations that come with it, buoyed by the knowledge that it’s not an unfamiliar path for me.” That path has been defined by a deliberate shift from political rhetoric to measurable delivery.
