Presidency Didn’t Intervene In APC Primary Disputes – NWC Member

A member of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed reports that President Bola Tinubu intervened in the crisis trailing the party’s recent primaries.

The NWC member who spoke with Punch described the claim as false, insisting that neither Tinubu nor anyone from the Presidency had contacted the party’s national officials about any plan to review the outcome of the primaries.

He said if the President wanted to intervene to protect “his interest,” such intervention would have come before the conduct of the primaries.

Speaking on the controversies surrounding the APC primaries in Lagos State, the party official said all candidates who emerged during the exercise had been confirmed.

He added that their names were ready for upload to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) portal.

The NWC member said, “Anybody who emerged in the Lagos primaries has emerged. Was the President not aware of any issue before their emergence? Lagos results are intact. Nothing has changed, and nothing will be changed.

“Generally, we are not considering any review of the primary results. Maybe less than two per cent of the petitions filed by aggrieved aspirants succeeded. So, there is no change to the results with us.”

When contacted, the National Secretary of the APC, Ajibola Basiru, declined to comment on the matter.

“This is an internal affair of our party; I can’t discuss that on the pages of a newspaper,” he said.