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By David Odama
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Prof Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda, has emerged the new National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), according to a report just coming in from Abuja, the nation’s capital.
The plateau born professor emergence has laid to rest the intense speculations over who replaces the immediate past national chairman, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, who resigned from the position on health grounds.
Prof Yilwatda emergence according to reports, came ahead of today’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the ruling APC after the stakeholders’ parley involving President Bola Tinubu, the APC Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) among others, held at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa on Wednesday night,” the report adds.
An APC National Working Committee (NWC) member who did not want his name mentioned, hinted that Prof Yilwatda’s appointment which has the blessings of the party leaders is to ensure that a democrat takes over the affairs of the party instead of a politicians that have superintended over the party previously.
“The NWC source also based the choice of Edward, who is a Christian, on the resolve of the party leaders to correct the religious imbalance in the hierarchy of the party’s national positions, describing it as strategic,” the report says, adding:
“Appointed the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs last year, Yilwatda was the APC Plateau governorship candidate in the 2023 general elections.
“Born on August 8, 1968 in Dungung, Kanke LG to the family of a clergy, Late Rev and Mrs Toma Yilwatda, professor YilwaYilwada is endowed with huge administrative and electoral experiences.
It would be recalled that the plateau born technocrat had in 2017 served as a Commissioner with Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and posted to Benue State as the Resident Electoral Commissioner.
