APC NWC Member Denies Presidency Intervention in Party Primary Disputes
A member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee (NWC) has dismissed reports that President Bola Tinubu intervened in the crisis trailing the party’s recent primaries.
Speaking with Punch, the official described the claim as false, insisting that neither Tinubu nor anyone from the Presidency contacted the party’s national officials about any plan to review the outcome of the primaries.
He added that if the President had wanted to intervene to protect “his interest,” such action would have occurred before the primaries were conducted.
Regarding the controversies surrounding the APC primaries in Lagos State, the party official said all candidates who emerged during the exercise have been confirmed and their names are ready for upload to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) portal.
He stated, “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.
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