The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ebonyi State, has said it will clear all the elective positions in the 2027 general elections.
The party which described the opposition as scavengers looking for money to grab, said it remains a formidable force with credible candidates that will win all the positions.
Chairman of the party, Chief Stanley Okoro Emegha stated this in Abakaliki, the state capital while speaking with reporters on Monday.
He opined that some of those contesting election in opposition parties were given tickets in the APC during the 2023 general election but failed woefully, arguing that they will still be defeated in 2027 as they are running under the opposition
“If my mind is made up in anything, it is made up. APC will win the 2027 general election in Ebonyi very comfortably.
“All the people making noise saying they are contesting in other parties were given APC tickets before and they contested and lost.
“You contested election in the ruling party and lost. And now you want to go and try in opposition. They are all scavengers and what they are looking for is the money that will drop for their ambition. None of them is serious.
“We now have credible candidates for the next general election,” he stated.
On the insinuation in some quarters that some candidates of the APC for the general election have been dropped, Emegha urged the general public to disregard the propaganda and rumours.
He disclosed that the candidates remain those declared by the committees that conducted the party’s primaries who were sent from the national secretariat of the party.
“It is solely the responsibility of the party to write and forward cleared candidates of a party to INEC and I have done that.
“The state met severally and agreed on the candidates to file for the general election and we filed those candidates.
“The governor who is the leader of the party had a meeting with stakeholders of the state and people like Chief Martin Elechi were in the meeting till 10:00 pm in the night and the stakeholders agreed on candidates that will contest the election.
“That day was the final day it was concluded. So, very soon, the national secretariat will publish candidates of our party.
“If you had listened very well on the radio, you have heard the names of those that I, the state chairman of APC, congratulated for emerging candidates of our great party.
“If you were following up our party activities including the primaries, you would have seen that the committee that came to conduct our primaries declared all the results of APC primaries here in the state and it was done on camera. So, nothing changes it,” Emegha added.
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