By CHIEDU UCHE OKOYE

Engr. Eric Anyamene, who is seeking to represent Idemili North and South federal constituency in the national assembly and Hon. Obinna Igboebisi, who is jostling to represent Idemili North Constituency in the Anambra Assembly, have won the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) primary elections.

Anyamene and Igboebisi are two illustrious sons of Obosi, who are toeing the lines of such great Obosi-born political juggernauts as Senator Mike Ajaegbo and Hon. Obinna Chidoka.

The NDC primary election, which took place at the civic centre, Ogidi, Anambra state, on May 29, 2026, drew a mammoth crowd of NDC party faithful.

But for the combined team of security personnel deployed in the place to maintain law and order, there would have been violent clashes between supporters of political rivals angling for the same tickets.

And the popular option A4, which requires party members to queue behind their favourite or chosen political aspirants, was used to conduct the primary election, successfully.

During the election, innumerable number of NDC members stood behind the banner of Engr. Eric Anyamene. And the line of people who chose him, which snaked for a long distance, extended beyond the gate of the civic centre.

Anyamene was battling for NDC ticket to contest the Idemili North and South federal constituency of the lower Chambers of the national assembly. And his other opponents for the NDC tickets were Uche Harris Okonkwo, Chidiogo Constance Ikokwu, and others.

And for the Idemili North Constituency in the Anambra state assembly election, Hon. Obinna Igboebisi, a man-mountain, battled his town's man, Mr. Emma Nwobosi, for the party's ticket. His line of supporters outpaced that of Nwobosi.

With this victory, the coast is clear for Hon. Igboebisi to fly the NDC flag in the 2027 Idemili North Constituency, Anambra assembly election.

Engr. Eric Anyamene will wait for the compilation of the Idemili North and Idemili South results to know his fate, however.

But the political augury has said that he will be the NDC candidate for the Idemili North and South federal constituency election, what with the teeming crowd chanting his name endlessly.

•Chiedu is of the Anambra state ministry of information.

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