APC to fill all elective positions in Ebonyi by 2027, says Emegha

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ebonyi State has announced that it will contest all 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 who will win every position.

Chief Stanley Okoro Emegha, chairman of the party, made the comments in Abakaliki, the state capital, while speaking with reporters on Monday.

He noted that some individuals who contested elections under opposition parties had previously received APC tickets in the 2023 general election but failed. He argued that they will still be defeated in 2027 because 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,” he 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 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 added.

When asked about rumors that some APC candidates for the general election had been dropped, Emegha urged the public to disregard the propaganda and rumours.

He explained that the candidates remain those declared by the committees that conducted the party’s primaries and were sent from the national secretariat.

“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 until 10:00 pm that 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.