2023 Ebonyi State gubernatorial election

The 2023 Ebonyi State gubernatorial election will take place in early 2023, to elect the Governor of Ebonyi State. Incumbent APC Governor Dave Umahi is term-limited and cannot seek re-election to a third term. The primaries will be scheduled for late 2022 or early 2023.

2023 Ebonyi State gubernatorial election
early 2023
 
Party APC PDP
Governor before election

Dave Umahi
APC

 Elected Governor

TBD
TBD

Electoral system

The Governor of Ebonyi State is elected using a modified two-round system. To be elected in the first round, a candidate must receive the plurality of the vote and over 25% of the vote in at least two-thirds of state local government areas. If no candidate passes this threshold, a second round will be held between the top candidate and the next candidate to have received a plurality of votes in the highest number of local government areas.

Primary elections

The primaries, along with any potential challenges to primary results, will take place in late 2022 or early 2023. An informal zoning gentlemen's agreement sets the Ebonyi North Senatorial District to have the next governor as Ebonyi North has not held the governorship since 2007. However, some groups such as the Association of Ebonyi State Indigenes in the Diaspora claimed that as one full rotation of districts would be complete in 2023, further zoning was unnecessary.[1][2][3] On the other hand, some leaders in the Izzi subgroup of the Igbo people claim that not only should the governorship be zoned to Ebonyi North, it should go to the Izzi as former Governor Sam Egwu was from a non-Izzi area of Ebonyi North. Meanwhile, some leaders in the Ezaa subgroup of the Igbo people called for their group to hold the governorship as the Ezaa are one of the largest subgroups in the state.[4]

Potential

PDP

In late September 2021, State PDP Chairman Fred Udeogu announced that the state party had zoned its gubernatorial nomination to the "Abakaliki bloc" (the North and Central Senatorial Districts).[7]

Potential

See also

References
  1. "2023: Zoning won't count in Ebonyi, indigenes declare". Vanguard. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  2. Ugwu, Romanus; Agwu, Chijioke. "2023 guber: Ebonyi indigenes kick against zoning". Sun News Online. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  3. Okutu, Peter. "2023 Guber election: Planned exclusion of Ebonyi South zone is illogical, oppressive — Ebonyi youths". Vanguard. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
  4. Agwu, Chijioke. "2023: Two Ebonyi clans square up for guber contest". Sun News Online. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  5. Sobechi, Leo. "Finalist governors faced with tricky succession plans". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  6. Ignatius, Monday. "Unveiling Major Contenders Ahead Ebonyi 2023". Independent Nigeria. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
  7. Okutu, Peter. "2023: Ebonyi PDP zones gov'ship to Abakaliki bloc, holds Congress on 2nd October". Vanguard. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
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