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2027: APC Screens 24 Ebonyi Assembly Aspirants
By Our Correspondent, Abakaliki
Ahead of the 2027 general elections, the All Progressive Congress APC screening committee has screened twenty four Ebonyi State House of Assembly aspirants under the platform of APC in the State.
Addressing newsmen in Abakaliki, the chairman of the screening committee, Valentine Akwuba, said that none of the aspirants was disqualified from the exercise.
According to him “The exercise was painstaking; we left no stone unturned. We screened every prospective aspirant: their documented qualifications, their expertise, their membership of the party and every other thing that has to do with the instructions handed to us by the headquarters.
“We did not disqualify anybody, but we did a thorough job, and we will forward our recommendations and outcome to the party secretariat,” he said.
Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Moses Odunwa, representing Ikwo South State Constituency, who was among those cleared by the screening committee, said every aspirant must stand for the party primaries despite emerging as a consensus candidate of the APC during a consultative stakeholders’ meeting convened by Governor Francis Nwifuru last week.
He described state lawmakers as the closest to the people because they are always around in the constituencies they represent.
Odunwa assured of more quality representation if reelected for a third term.
The Deputy Speaker of the State Assembly Rt. Hon. Chinedu Onah, seeking for third term and member representing Abakaliki North Constituency Hon. Victor Chidi Nwoke aspiring for second tenure were among those cleared by the APC screening committee.