Tension is mounting within the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Etsako Central constituency following what supporters of Hon. Mathias Igekhie Aliu (MIA) have described as desperate attempts in some quarters to deny the widely accepted grassroots politician his well-earned victory in the party’s House of Assembly primary election.

Across Etsako Central, jubilations had greeted the emergence of Hon. Mathias Igekhie Aliu after the primary process, with party faithful, youths, women groups, and community leaders openly celebrating what many described as “the triumph of the people’s will.”