2027: APC aspirant sues party, INEC over Abia South ticket

By Ugochukwu Alaribe

UMUAHIA — An aspirant for the Abia South Senatorial District seat on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Erondu Uchenna Erondu Jnr, has dragged the party and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) before the Federal High Court, Abuja, over the alleged substitution of his name as the party’s candidate.

Erondu Jnr, who currently represents Obingwa West State Constituency in the Abia State House of Assembly, is challenging the purported substitution of his name as the APC’s flag bearer for the 2027 senatorial election.

The suit followed reports that the APC had replaced him with Prince Paul Ikonne as its candidate for the senatorial district.

Erondu insists that he remains the duly elected candidate of the party, having emerged from the APC’s direct primary held on May 18, 2026.