Anambra guber: Don’t use my pictures in campaign posters — Ngige warns APC

Former governor of Anambra State, Chief Chris Ngige, has issued a stern warning to the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the November 8, 2025, off cycle election in the State, Mr. Nicholas Ukachukwu, against using his name and pictures to campaign for votes.

Ngige who served as the Minister of Labour and Productivity under late President Muhammadu Buhari administration, frowned at his photograph, which was used alongside that of Mr Ukachukwu and his running mate, Uche Ekwunife, in their campaign posters.

According to him, such action is aimed at misleading the public.

He gave the warning in a statement issued by his spokesman, Hyggy Obialo, on Tuesday.

The statement reads: “Our attention has been drawn to the online poster in circulation with the photograph of our principal, His Excellency, Senator Chris Nwabueze Ngige, ‘Onwa-na-etiliora’, featuring together with the Anambra State APC governorship candidate, Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu, and his deputy, Senator Uche Ekwunife.

“We want to use this medium to inform the general public that neither the consent nor approval of our principal was sought and/or obtained, respectively, before the said publication was disseminated to the general public.

“We further wish to inform the general public that Senator Chris Nwabueze Ngige, a former Governor of Anambra State (2003-2006), a former Senator who represented Anambra State Central Senatorial District in the seventh Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria [2011 – 2015] and a two-term Honourable Minister of Labour and Employment [2015 -2023] is on sabbatical from active partisan politics for now as he is taking his well-deserved rest after 25 years of active partisan politics and public service.Travel packages to Nigeria

“We, therefore, advise the perpetrators to respect the wishes of our principal, who has indicated in many fora that he is out of partisan politics for now.”

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