The Plateau State women wing of the All Progressives Congress (APC) staged a rally on Tuesday to protest reports that Governor Caleb Mutfwang plans to defect to the party.

Elizabeth Samson Yerse, convener of the rally and leader of the APC women in the state, vowed to resist any attempt to force Mutfwang into the party.

Gossip News Now reports that the demonstrators gathered at the Secretariat Junction Bridge in Jos, using the occasion to also endorse President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s bid for a second term.

Clad in APC colours and chanting solidarity songs, the women carried placards with inscriptions such as “Vindictive Mutfwang, No Room in APC,” “APC is our Promised Land,” and “We Don’t Want Pharaoh Mutfwang.”

Yerse, who is also the state coordinator of the Tinubu Torch Bearers, accused individuals within the APC allegedly paving the way for Mutfwang’s defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of engaging in anti-party activities.

She stressed the group’s position, saying, “If a woman says no, you respect her choice; you do not force yourself on her.” Yerse likened the APC to a woman of dignity, values, and principles, insisting that no amount of pressure would make them accept someone they believe consistently undermines the party and its members.

Highlighting past statements by Mutfwang, Yerse said, “It has been on record that the governor said he would never join the APC and even described the party as an evil political organisation. Let it be clearly understood: we in the APC, especially the women wing, do not want Governor Caleb Mutfwang in our party—not now, not later, and not under any political arrangement.”

She added, “APC is not a political haven for leaders who have failed to stabilise their own parties. It is not a dumping ground for politicians fleeing the crises they created. Your style of leadership is incompatible with the disciplined, forward-looking direction of our party. You cannot disengage the youth of Plateau State, the leaders of tomorrow, who were employed by former Governor Simon Bako Lalong, and expect to be accepted into our ranks.”

Yerse concluded by affirming the women wing’s stance: “We reject Governor Mutfwang’s entry into our beloved party because we do not want division, indiscipline, or sabotage of the efforts our National Chairman, Professor Nentawe Yiltwada, has invested in making APC a model party admired by right-minded Nigerians.”