The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ebonyi State has boasted that it will clear all elective positions in next year’s general election, describing opposition candidates as “scavengers looking for money to grab” and not serious contenders.
State Chairman of the party, Chief Stanley Okoro Emegha, stated this on Monday in Abakaliki while speaking with reporters.
He maintained that the APC remains a formidable force with credible candidates capable of winning all positions in 2027.
“If my mind is made up in anything, it is made up. APC will win the 2027 general election in Ebonyi very comfortably,” Emegha said.
“All the people making noise, saying they are contesting in other parties, were given APC tickets before and they contested and lost.
“You contested the 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 insinuations in some quarters that some APC candidates for the general election had been dropped, Emegha urged the public to disregard what he called propaganda and rumours.
He disclosed that the party’s candidates remain those declared by the committees that conducted the party’s primaries and were sent by 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.
“Until 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 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 the 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 as 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,” the chairman stated. Tribune