APC NWC ambushes aggrieved aspirants, draws candidates’ list for submission to INEC.
Collins Nnabuife
June 8, 2026
Amidst gale of protests trailing the outcome of the All Progressives Congress (APC) primaries to select candidates for the forthcoming general elections, the leadership of the party may have tactically pulled the rug off the feet of aggrieved aspirants.
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Nigerian Tribune checks revealed that the APC National Working Committee has since submitted the list of its candidates to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
A party source privy to the development revealed that the NWC took the decision at the end of its meeting last week, ostensibly to ward off pressures from aspirants who have secured assurances from influential figures in government to ensure that the party reversed outcomes of the processes in some states.
Inestigating by the Nigerian Tribune checks revealed that the ruling party national secretariat had in the course of the congresses gave instructions to those saddled with the supervision of the elections, not to announce results until final ratification by the Professor Nentawe Yilwatda-led NWC.
While the directive was, however, observed in breaches in states which announced winners of primaries for Governorship and National Assembly seats, particularly in state chapters that adopted consensus option, most states submitted the list of aspirants who emerged victorious to the National Secretariat.
Apparently relying on the pronouncement of the party’s national secretariat on formal pronouncement of the outcome of the primary, former Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, who lost the Oyo State governorship ticket to Senator Sarafadeen Ali had declared that no one should lay claim to the governorship ticket in the state until a formal pronouncement from the party’s national secretariat in Abuja.
The erstwhile power minister, in a statement last week, maintained that “no individual or group at the state level had been authorised to announce the final outcome of the primaries.”
He insisted that only the party’s national headquarters could make such a declaration.
The party has, however, been silent on formal announcements of candidates who are anxious to collect Certificates of Return.
Colled from Tribune
(DEMOCRACY NEWSLINE NEWSPAPER, JUNE 8TH 2026)
