By MBACHU GODWIN, Abuja
Ahead of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Abuja Municipal Area Council, AMAC, primary election scheduled for June 21, the chairman of the party, Alhaji Murthar Abubakar has disclosed that there will be no automatic ticket to those who defected recently to the party, including the incumbent chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council, Hon. Christopher Makalangu.
There has been speculations of the party to hand over automatic ticket to the incumbent AMAC chairman as compensation for his defection.
Makalangu had last month defected from the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressive Congress, APC, citing division in the party.
Speaking at the unveiling of Hon . Yunusa Dantani Sarki at the weekend at Karimo, Abuja by YDS foundation , Vice chairman of AMAC, APC , Saidu Yaro Karishi who represented the Chairman , Hon Murthar Abubakar made the disclosure .
Kariahi who dismissed rumours of ceding the ticket to Makalangu noted that every aspirant will go to the field and seek votes from the electorates .
He said ” let me use this opportunity to clear the air on the rumour of automatic ticket making the round , I want to state clearly that there is no automatic ticket for anybody for AMAC 2026 election, every aspirant will go through primary election , so let me say here, there is nothing like automatic ticket”
Unfolding his agenda Hon. Yunusa Dantani Sarki noted that he was in the race to transform the Area council which according to him has suffered retardation in previous administration and breaches the gap between the indigenes and non indigenes.
Speaking on the Defection of the current chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council, Makalangu from the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressive Congress, APC, Sarki dismissed fears of automatic tikect , saying that he was confident of winning the party’s ticket.
“President Goodluck Jonathan was incumbent president and he was defeated by Muhammad Buhari in 2015, the people will decide , Makalangu must go, he declared
Meanwhile,chairman of Yunusa Dantani Sarki Foundation, Chief Okoye Sunday said the group will mobilize it’s resources and voters for the victory of their preferred candidate, Hon Sarki, adding that he pissed the right credentials to govern the Area Council.
