APC Chairman Yilwatda Mocks Opposition Warfare; Says He Delights in Watching ADC and NDC Explode in Bitter War of Words

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, has taken a heavy swipe at Nigeria’s opposition structures, describing their ongoing public disputes as an amusing “self-implosion” that poses absolutely zero threat to the ruling party’s hold on power.

Appearing on Channels Television’s flagship political brief, Politics Today, on Monday night, May 25, 2026, the APC chief did not hide his amusement regarding the increasingly bitter media war between the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC). According to Yilwatda, the political battlefield has completely shifted away from the ruling party, leaving the alternative platforms to rip each other apart in the public square.

“In the last three weeks, the APC is not fighting ADC or NDC. It is NDC versus ADC or ADC versus NDC,” Yilwatda stated with a grin, responding to questions about the changing political landscape ahead of the 2027 transition cycle. “Actually, I watched with fun all the insults that the ADC is raining on the NDC and the NDC is returning those fireworks on the ADC. I watched the videos, and I laughed. The self-implosion is in the opposition rather than in the APC.”

When the anchor pressed him on whether the APC high command was secretly executing a backroom script to deliberately weaken and fracture its opponents, the chairman flatly denied pulling the operational strings but admitted he would gladly take the credit if he could. In a moment of absolute political candor, Yilwatda outlined the realities of his job manual as the leader of the country’s dominant political force.

“No, I can’t. But I will be happy if I can do it. That’s my job,” Yilwatda retorted. “If you are opposing me, should I be happy? If you oppose me because you are in the opposition, what’s my job? Of course, to stop the opposition.”

Shifting his focus to the internal operations of the ruling party, the former Humanitarian Affairs Minister brushed off reports of minor friction arising from recent state-level congresses. He asserted that unlike their rivals, the APC possesses a superior technical conflict resolution manual backed by highly functional national and state reconciliation committees capable of absorbing internal shockwaves.

Furthermore, Yilwatda delivered a robust defense of the massive voter turnout recorded during the party’s weekend presidential primary that handed President Bola Tinubu a fresh mandate. Addressing claims of inflated figures, the party boss revealed that the APC has built an ironclad security shield around its membership register by sourcing all primary biographical data directly from the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC). By tying party membership to the same national database used for international passports and bank portals, Yilwatda insists the APC has permanently cleared out the era of ghost voting, setting a standard for transparency that the warring opposition blocks can only dream of matching.