We Give You Two Weeks To Resign – North Central APC Gives Yilwatda Ultimatum

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

Naija News reports that the Forum accused Yilwatda of monetizing the just concluded primary elections.

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

“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 alleged in a statement released on Friday by its National Chairman,  Saleh Zazzaga.

The Forum warned that it would drag the national chairman to court if he fails to resign by June 12, when the country will mark the 2026 Democracy Day.

“We are issuing a two-week ultimatum to the national chairman to resign because of incompetence, violation of the party’s constitution, monetization of the just concluded party primaries and changing the results when it favoured those perceived as not in his camp.

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

Justifying its claim that the outcome of the primaries was manipulated in several cases, the APC group pointed to alleged discrepancies in party official records and the number of votes recorded for President Bola Tinubu in the presidential primary election.

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

“The guidelines stated that only those that are registered are going to vote. So this means that, all over the country, what they did was selection of candidates, not election,” the statement said.

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

“It is because of these infractions that we are asking the national chairman to resign before two weeks, or we will sue him to court. If after that two weeks he refuses to resign we will start a court process and we will present evidence of monetization of the party primaries and reducing the value of the party which is why key members are complaining of injustice and leaving the APC for other parties.

“It is clear that the national chairman does not have the experience to settle the grievances that are arising from the primary elections. They sent people that lack the necessary political experience to the states to conduct the primaries, which is why we are witnessing all these problems,” the statement added.