According to a report by Arise News, on Wednesday May 20, 2026, the internal crisis rocking the Delta State chapter of the All Burgers Congress (APC) has taken a sharper turn as the incumbent federal lawmaker representing Delta North Senatorial District, Senator Ned Nwoko, openly lamented the systemic sidelining of founding party members.…....
Nwoko warned that the influx of powerful new defectors into the state chapter has triggered a hostile takeover, completely upending internal party democracy and pushing foundational members into political irrelevance.
When asked by the interviewer if the current friction inside the party points to a wider national trend or an impending party implosion, Nwoko chose to focus strictly on the political terrain he knows best.
“. I keep telling you that I can only talk about Delta,” Senator Nwoko stated emphatically. “The fact is that the legacy APC members have been shoved aside and and the the new guys that came in took over practically everything.”.
The friction stems from the fallout of the highly contentious Delta North primary election, where Nwoko claims his victory across the district’s 98 wards was hijacked by state-level actors aligned with newly defected political heavyweights.
Nwoko revealed that before making his own transition to the ruling party, top national leaders including former National Chairman Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje had explicitly promised that a structural power-sharing formula would protect the interests of both old and new party elements.
“We were assured that there will be some sharing formula, power sharing formula that the state exco [executive committee] will be dissolved and there will be nominations to enable the old APC to get a foothold into the government, but that was never done,” Nwoko explained.
