By Chinedu Nwafor,Abakaliki

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ebonyi State, says it’s confident of victory in the forthcoming 2027 general elections, describing opposition elements as scavengers looking for money to grab.

Chairman of APC in the State, Chief Stanley Okoro Emegha, who stated this in Abakaliki, the state capital, on Monday, during a chat with Journalists, said the APC remains a formidable force with credible and sellable candidates that will win all the positions in the forthcoming elections.

Emegha noted that some of those contesting election in opposition parties were given tickets in the APC during the last general elections, but failed woefully, maintaining that they will still be defeated in 2027.

“If my mind is made up in anything, it is made up. APC will win the 2027 general elections 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 elections”, 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 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 field for the general elections and we have field those candidates.

“Untill 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 10pm 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 would 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”, the Chairman stated.END//