The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South-East has taken a decision to work together and ensure that the party dominates political activities in the zone.

The resolution was reached in Enugu on Saturday, May 3, 2025 during a consultative meeting of the South-East select leaders of the APC.

Communicating the decisions of the APC leadership to journalists after several hours of closed-door deliberations at the party’s Zonal Secretariat in Enugu, Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma, who is Chairman of Progressives Governors’ Forum and South-East Governors’ Forum, said it was in the interest of the zone to join APC which is the ruling political party at the Federal Government.

“We want to encourage our brothers and sisters, even those in political offices that are not members of APC, to see reason for the interest of Ndigbo and South-East as a zone to to join APC that is the ruling political party,” Uzodimma said.

He made reference to other geopolitical zones, where sitting governors are now joining the APC.

Governor Uzodimma, flanked by Ebonyi State Governor Francis Nwifuru, APC Deputy National Chairman South, Chief Emma Eneukwu, Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon Benjamin Kalu, former Abia State Governor, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Chief Uche Nnaji, among others, said that “it is by joining the ruling party that the South-East zone will be very close to the corridors of power and the Federal Government”.

Governor Uzodimma further noted that the Party’s leadership in the South East has decided to be part of the national politics, and to end the marginalisation of the zone at the sharing of the gains and affairs of the national government, hence, “the resolve to see APC as a family, to tolerate one another’s shortcomings and work as a cohesive team.”

The meeting was attended by several notable APC figures from the South-East, including former Senator President Anyim Pius Anyim, Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Mrs. Nkiruka Onyejeocha, former Speaker of Abia State House of Assembly/Board member of the South-East Development Commission, Rt. Hon. Stanley Ohajuruka, Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Chike Olemgbe, the November 2025 Anambra State APC governorship candidate, Chief Nicholas Ukachukwu, all APC State Chairmen from the South-East, several National Assembly members, and other national officers of the party from the region.