Despite mounting pressure from opposition, Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has expressed confidence that major voting blocs in Kano and Katsina states are firmly aligned with the ruling party ahead of the 2027 general elections.
Yilwatda made the assertion during a media chat with journalists in Abuja, where he also dismissed concerns that the wave of defections from opposition parties into the APC could trigger internal implosion within the ruling party.
On the party’s electoral prospects, the chairman identified Kano, the country’s most populous northern states as strongholds for the APC.
“I can assure you that Kano is a given to us as APC, and it is a swing state in the North-West,” he said, adding that major voting blocs, including Katsina, were firmly in the party’s corner.
Addressing fears that the influx of politicians from opposition parties could destabilise the APC’s internal balance, Yilwatda pointed to the party’s recent congresses as evidence of its capacity to manage competing interests without fracturing.
“No. If you watch our congresses, the opposition said that after our congresses, our party will collapse because of self-implosion. We were able to manage the interest of everybody — the governors, the National Assembly, and other members of the party — and we did that equitably,” he said.
The chairman attributed the party’s stability to what he described as a unique internal conflict resolution mechanism that sets the APC apart from other Nigerian political parties.
“I think no political party in Nigeria has our own internal conflict resolution mechanism,” he said.
Pushing back against critics who accuse the APC of prioritising political manoeuvring over governance, Yilwatda insisted that the two were not mutually exclusive.
“We are not just playing politics alone; we are also ensuring that governance will count in our elections,” he said.
The APC currently controls 31 of Nigeria’s 36 states and has faced accusations of engineering a drift toward a one-party state, allegations the party leadership has consistently denied.
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