APC Chairman Addresses Viral Vote-Counting Video
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nentawe Yilwatda, has responded to allegations of irregular vote counting during the party’s presidential primary election.
A circulating video purportedly shows a collation officer in Abia State inflating figures after the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, instructed him to “begin your count.”
Speaking on Arise News on Monday, Yilwatda said the party’s official results are based on ward‑level collation, not the footage seen online.
He explained that the numbers displayed in the clip do not match APC’s verified data for Abia State, noting that no single ward in the state has as many as 7,000 registered voters.
The chairman dismissed the video as possible dramatization or mimicry, stressing that any such performance did not alter the party’s tallied votes.
“We work with the actual data,” Yilwatda said. “If someone chooses to mimic counting or stage a drama at a centre, it has no bearing on the overall figures.”
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