Aspirants Revolt Against APC Primaries Results
Fresh tension has hit the All Progressives Congress after several aspirants across Ekiti, Ondo, Kaduna, Plateau, Nasarawa, Kwara, Zamfara and Benue rejected the outcome of the party’s senatorial and House of Representatives primaries.
The aggrieved politicians accused party officials of manipulating results, ignoring direct primary guidelines and imposing preferred candidates.
In Ekiti, former senator Ayo Arise and another aspirant, Dare Owolabi, insisted the declared result did not reflect votes from the wards.
Similar complaints emerged in Ondo where former deputy governor Agboola Ajayi dismissed the announced outcome as fake.
In Plateau, Senator Pam Dachungyang described the exercise as a sham and claimed voting did not hold in many areas.
Kaduna witnessed street protests by angry aspirants and supporters who accused the party of abandoning the approved direct primary system.
In Nasarawa and Kwara, party members also protested against what they called irregularities, poor supervision and fabricated results.
Some aspirants threatened legal action if the party leadership failed to intervene quickly.
In Zamfara and Benue, contestants rejected consensus arrangements and alleged that some leaders were working for personal interests.
Appeals and petitions have already been submitted in several states as pressure mounts on the APC national leadership to review the disputed primaries before the crisis deepens ahead of the 2027 elections.
