The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has ruled out automatic tickets for its first term members at the National Assembly.
The APC National Publicity Secretary, Barrister Felix Morka, in a statement said the party would not give automatic tickets to federal lawmakers who are members of the party as reported by an online medium.
Sequel to the recent defections from the opposition parties, APC is leading in the Senate with 68 senators out of 109 members and over 200 in the 360-member House of Representatives.
Also, there has been influx of opposition leaders into the ruling party ahead of the 2027 general elections.
While some of the defectors have cited internal wrangling in their parties, others said they joined the APC to be part of a government that “delivers dividend of democracy” to the people.
Also, there were claims in some quarters that some of the defectors who joined the APC were promised automatic tickets.
But the party said, “The attention of the APC has been drawn to a purported ‘breaking news report tagged, ‘APC grants automatic tickets to all National Assembly members’ in viral circulation.
“The report is fake news and should be disregarded in its entirety as it did not emanate from our great party.
“We urge all party members and the general public to disregard the report as fake and of mischievous origin.”
(Daily Trust)
