North Central APC Issues Two-Week Ultimatum To Yilwatda To Resign

The North-Central All Progressives Congress (APC) Forum has given a two-week ultimatum to the party’s National Chairman, Nentawe Yilwatda to resign.

The Forum reportedly accused Yilwatda of monetizing the just concluded primary elections.

They specifically attributed the crisis and controversy surrounding the State Assembly, National Assembly, governorship and presidential primaries of the ruling party to the Yilwatda-led APC National Working Committee (NWC).

“The Forum said in a statement on Friday by its National Chairman, Saleh Zazzaga, that “results were upturned to favour those who danced to the tune of party officials while in several cases, aspirants who were set to win primary elections were screened out”.

The Forum threatened to take the national chairman to court if he did not resign by June 12, the country’s 2026 Democracy Day.

“We are giving the national chairman a two week ultimatum to resign on the grounds of incompetence, breach of the party constitution, monetization of the just concluded party primaries and altering the results when it favoured those perceived not to be in his camp.

“We have it on good authority that the national chairman and his team used the position to change the results and influence the outcome of primary elections across the country,” the statement said.

The APC group said it was alleging the manipulation of the outcomes of the primaries in several cases, citing alleged discrepancies between records of party officials and the number of votes recorded for President Bola Tinubu, in the presidential primary election.

“We are worried that the NWC under the national chairman did not reconcile the official data of the party with the presidential primary election. The party has 8 million registered voters but when they released the result of Mr President in the presidential primary, they wrote more than 10 million votes.

Only registered people are going to vote, according to the guidelines. “Therefore, this means that all over the country what they did was selection of candidates, not election,” the statement read.

The Forum also lamented that the party had been weakened as a result of the controversy trailing the primaries with some key members resigning to join other political parties over perceived injustice.

“This is why we are asking the national chairman to resign within two weeks. If he refuses, we will drag him to court. If thereafter he refuses to resign after two weeks, we will go to court and we will present evidence of monetization of the party primaries and also reducing the value of the party, that is why key members are complaining of injustice and leaving the APC for other parties.

The national chairman does not have what it takes to settle the grievances that are coming out of the primaries, it is clear. “They sent people to the states to conduct the primaries who do not have the required political experience and that is why we are seeing all these problems,” the statement added.