No automatic ticket for defectors ahead of AMAC APC Primaries – Party Chairman declares

As the All Progressives Congress (APC) prepares for its highly anticipated primary election in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), party chairman Alhaji Murthar Abubakar has made it clear: there will be no automatic ticket for recent defectors regardless of their political standing.

Speaking ahead of the June 21st primaries, Abubakar addressed growing speculation that the party might offer an automatic ticket to the incumbent AMAC chairman, Hon. Christopher Zakka Maikalangu, as a form of compensation for his recent defection from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

“The APC remains committed to internal democracy. Everyone must go through the proper process, no matter when they joined,” Abubakar stated firmly.

Hon. Maikalangu had formally joined the APC last month, citing internal divisions within the PDP as his reason for leaving.

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 Good luck 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 Okoh 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 and experience to govetn the Area Council.

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