The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, and Yusuf Buhari, son of former President Muhammadu Buhari, were among prominent figures who secured tickets of the All Progressives Congress to contest the House of Representatives election in 2027.
The APC held its House of Reps primary on Saturday across the 360 federal constituencies nationwide.
Ahead of the primary, the party had disqualified 14 aspirants from contesting the primary across Ondo, Bauchi, Ebonyi, Kogi and Rivers states
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Felix Morka, disclosed the disqualifications in a statement issued on Saturday, saying the aspirants failed to scale the screening exercise conducted by the party’s screening committees.
Among those disqualified were four serving members of the House of Representatives — Iduma Igariwey from Ebonyi State, Anderson Allison and Awaji-Inombek Abiante from Rivers State, and Boma Goodhead, also from Rivers State.
