The North-Central All Progressives Congress Discussion board has condemned protests staged by some APC members in Jos on Saturday in opposition to Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang’s attainable defection to the social gathering.
The Discussion board has been on the forefront of a marketing campaign to persuade the governor to dump the Peoples Democratic Occasion, PDP, for the APC.
Nonetheless, some leaders of the APC in Plateau State are against Mutfwang’s coming to the social gathering.
At an occasion held in Jos on Saturday to obtain some politicians who defected to the APC, some members of the social gathering staged a protest, demanding that the Plateau governor shouldn’t be allowed to affix the APC.
The protesters carried placards with inscriptions that mentioned Mutfwang will not be welcome within the social gathering.
Reacting to the protest in a press release made out there to journalists in Abuja on Saturday, the North-Central APC Discussion board condemned the event, noting that it’s undemocratic to cease anyone, together with a governor, from becoming a member of any political social gathering of their alternative.
The Discussion board, in a press release signed by its Chairman, Alhaji Saleh Zazzaga, insisted that Mutfwang becoming a member of the APC forward of the 2027 election is in the very best curiosity of the social gathering,
The North-Central APC stakeholders urged President Bola Tinubu to name the Plateau chapter leaders working in opposition to Mutfwang’s defection to order.
The Discussion board equally threatened to report these blocking Mutfwang’s coming to the APC to President Tinubu.
Components of the assertion learn, “The North-Central APC Discussion board condemns motion of some Plateau APC leaders, who introduced a few of their supporters and different folks to parade banners and placards with messages that oppose Governor Caleb Mutfwang’s coming to the APC through the reception of decampees on Saturday in Jos.
“Whereas restating our name on Governor Mutfwang to affix the APC, we insist that it’s undemocratic to cease anyone, together with a serving governor, from becoming a member of a political social gathering of their alternative. It’s undemocratic and unconstitutional for any social gathering chief in Plateau State to attempt to cease Governor Mutfwang from becoming a member of the APC.
“These set of Plateau APC leaders did the identical factor once they organized a so referred to as stakeholders assembly and so they have now adopted up on this undemocratic enterprise by mobilizing their supporters to parade placards in opposition to Governor Mutfwang. They’re doing this to not shield the curiosity of the social gathering however just because they need to contest election in 2027, and for different egocentric causes. And we all know for sure that none of those folks have the capability to defeat Mutfwang in an election, irrespective of the social gathering he contests below.
“So we’re not solely condemning their motion, we’re additionally calling on President Bola Tinubu, the nationwide chief of the social gathering, to name these folks to order. We’re additionally calling on the Chairman of the Progressive Governors Discussion board to intervene on this matter by making a case for the governor in Plateau State to change into a part of the progressive governors.
“No one has the suitable to cease anyone, discuss much less a sitting governor, from becoming a member of any political social gathering. It’s a constitutional proper. The North-Central APC Discussion board needs Governor Mutfwang within the APC as a result of we all know he has the capability to convey worth to the social gathering.”
The Discussion board famous that these opposing Mutfwang’s coming to the APC are not directly working in opposition to Tinubu’s re-election in 2027.
“Pushing for Governor Mutfwang to affix the APC is in keeping with efforts to actualize our pledge to provide six million votes to President Bola Tinubu in 2027 however we now perceive that these individuals who don’t need the governor to return don’t need us to provide six million votes to Mr President. These persons are political amateurs – they don’t know the right way to play politics.
“The APC leaders in Plateau are additionally attacking us for calling on Governor Mutfwang to affix the social gathering. However we is not going to be intimidated as a result of we all know that they don’t have the facility to cease anyone, together with the governor, from becoming a member of the social gathering.
“We’re giving them an ultimatum to desist from their actions, in any other case we are going to write on to President Tinubu and point out their names as individuals who don’t need the progress of the APC and Mr President in Plateau State.
“We’re additionally calling on former governor of Plateau State, Senator Simon Bako Lalong, because the chief of the social gathering within the state, to shortly intervene and make room for Governor Mutfwang within the APC,” the assertion added.
It might be recalled that the North-Central APC Discussion board had in October rejected a decision handed by leaders of the APC in Plateau State in opposition to accepting Mutfwang within the social gathering.
The Plateau APC leaders had at a stakeholders assembly in Jos on October 17, 2025, endorsed a movement, moved by former Deputy Nationwide Secretary, Barrister Festus Fuanter, which opposed Mutfwang’s attainable defection to the APC.
“I transfer the movement in opposition to accepting Plateau State Governor Caleb Mutfwang becoming a member of the APC,” Fuanter had mentioned. The movement was additionally unanimously accepted by the stakeholders.
However within the assertion signed by Zazzaga, a member of the APC marketing campaign council within the 2023 election, North-Central APC Discussion board famous that its members in Plateau State weren’t invited to the stakeholders assembly the place the decision to dam Mutfwang’s defection was handed.
It added that majority of the “so referred to as Plateau APC stakeholders” who handed the decision are people who couldn’t ship their polling items for the social gathering over the last election however have now positioned themselves for federal appointments in Tinubu’s administration.
The Discussion board particularly noticed that the governorship working mate of the APC within the state within the 2023 election misplaced each his polling unit and ward to the PDP however is at the moment amongst these spearheading the opposition to Mutfwang becoming a member of the social gathering.
The assertion added, “It’s not nearly gathering to reject Governor Caleb Mutfwang. The true problem is who can win the governorship seat for the social gathering? Amongst these so referred to as stakeholders that gathered to reject Governor Mutfwang, solely just some are real, succesful social gathering members. It’s not about deciding on folks from some ethnic nationalities for federal appointment. The query is are they going to ship?
“For instance, within the earlier election the governorship working mate of the APC in Plateau State misplaced his polling unit and ward to PDP. He received 2,800 votes in his ward. PDP received 10,600. And now he’s among the many those who don’t need Mutfwang to return to the social gathering.
“Are these those who related that you’ll belief them once more? They didn’t vote for Tinubu, they voted for Peter Obi however now they’re speeding to Abuja for federal appointment. We’re agitating for folks to return into the social gathering and add worth however they’re opposing this course on account of their very own private pursuits. All these folks which can be rejecting Mutfwang can’t win their polling items.
“We need to collectively be part of arms to win Plateau State for Tinubu. It’s not about pursuits at this second. It is just whenever you win election that you just begin speaking about curiosity.”
The North-Central APC Discussion board had earlier declared that its marketing campaign for Mutfwang to affix the APC is backed by some influential folks within the Presidency.
