No Automatic Ticket For Shehu Sani -APC NWC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has disclosed that the National Working Committee has to given any Kaduna Senator automatic ticket for the 2019 general election.

The Deputy National Organizing Secretary, Mohammed Sani Ibrahim, in a statement, stated that there is no truth in the claims.

According to Ibrahim, “the National Working Committee of the APC has not handed over an automatic ticket to any senator in Kaduna State.”

Senator Sani is the only APC Senator from Kaduna state following the recent defection of his colleague from Kaduna North, Senator Suleiman Othman Hunkuyi.

He stated that the party’s constitution does not have provision for automatic ticket, and as such, whosoever want to contest election must be ready for primaries.

According to him, “As a compatriot, I feel deeply disturbed by the recent developments in our great party, especially the unfounded rumours regarding candidates for the various offices, as we approach the 2019 general elections.

“More disturbing is the story of the so-called endorsement or automatic tickets that people have been spreading on social media, especially as it relates to Kaduna central and many parts of the Northwest Senatorial District.

“For the records and in the interest of our great party’s constitution and its public image, I wish to declare that the party’s constitution is supreme and decisions at the National level is not a one-man show as some people wrongly assumed,” he said.

He added that Automatic tickets can be given after decisions are reached collectively by the National Working Committee in conjunction with the NEC which is vested with such powers.

“It follows logically therefore, that the stories being branded on social media are misleading, in the sense that our party is governed by its constitution and not individual wishes. And that is why we have the National Working Committee and the National Executive Committee.

“Let me make it categorically and abundantly clear that the APC will not and could not have given automatic ticket or endorsed any single candidate without recourse to guideline on nomination as stipulated in our party’s constitution.

“And right now, no such meeting has taken place yet and no publicity to that effect. The Senate of any senatorial district is not the exclusive preserve for any special favour,” he stated.