Controversy Erupts As APC Chairman Addresses Voting Irregularities In Party Primaries

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nentawe Yilwatda, has addressed concerns over alleged irregularities in vote counting during the party’s presidential primary election.....KINDLY READ THE FULL STORY HERE▶

Yilwatda spoke after viral videos circulated online showing what appeared to be unusual and dramatic vote tallying by some collation officers during the exercise. One of the clips allegedly showed a collation officer in Abia State rapidly recording figures after the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, instructed him to begin the count.

Reacting to the incident during an interview on Arise News on Monday, the APC chairman said the party’s official results were based strictly on verified ward-level data.

He explained that the figures seen in the viral video did not match the party’s authenticated records for Abia State, stressing that no single ward in the state has up to 7,000 registered voters.

“The data we have for Abia is completely different. Since the election was conducted at ward level, no ward in Abia State records up to 7,000 voters,” he said.

Yilwatda dismissed the video as either staged drama or misrepresentation, insisting it had no impact on the official outcome of the primary election.

He added that while individuals may act out scenes or create impressions at collation centres, such actions do not influence the final figures used by the party.

“There are cases where people may act or dramatize things at polling or collation centres, but we rely strictly on data. Even if there was any staged counting, it did not affect the total results,” he stated.