2027: Abia APC denies giving guber ticket to non-party member

The Abia State section of the All Progressive Congress, APC, has denied claims that it allowed a non-member of the enactment to beryllium declared the victor of its governorship superior election.

DAILY POST recalls that immoderate apical members of the party, including Mezie Chiekwe Esiaga and Ndubuisi Eme had past week, threatened that APC would endure large decision if the governorship summons is not fixed to erstwhile Minister of State for Science and Technology, Henry Ikoh.

But reacting to substance on Monday, the Abia State section of the APC said that the superior predetermination won by Eric Opah was transparent and not manipulated by the enactment successful favour of immoderate individual.

The Publicity Secretary of Abia APC, Uche Aguoru, who addressed the property astatine the party’s secretariat successful Umuahia, dismissed the claims that it imposed a non-party subordinate arsenic its candidate.

Aguoru explained that Opah was a grounded subordinate of the enactment agelong earlier the superior predetermination period, denying allegations that helium was smuggled-in done the backmost door.

He said Opah scored 125,977 votes to beat  the erstwhile minister, Henry Ikoh, who got lone 5,905 votes.

Aguoru alleged that the members who are threatening to enactment against the enactment successful the 2027 predetermination were sponsored by an  opposition enactment successful Abia State to embarrass the APC.

He boasted that Abia APC is agreed for the 2027 polls, pointing retired that the Labour Party, which ...