The newly selected National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, has revealed how he emerged as the party’s leader despite being very calm, gentle, and easygoing.
The former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs will be in
charge of over 20 APC states and a majority in the National Assembly.
Responding to a question on how he intends to handle the
ruling party, the Plateau-born politician said he would follow in the footsteps
of President Bola Tinubu.
“Look at the body language of Mr. President, soft, calm, and
gentle. You can see where he is driving the country’s economy, taking tough
decisions where people fear to even discuss,” he responded on Channels
Television’s Politics Today on Thursday.
Asked if he would be taking tough decisions, he interrupted,
“I will, because that’s what the President asked me to do, and the members
asked me to do also. Take tough decisions, but with a gentle tone and also
incorporate teamwork in it for collective interest in the party.”
He said that the decisions would not come from him alone,
adding that he is not the sole member of the party’s National Working Committee
(NWC).
“It’s our party. It is all about consultation, because I am a
coordinator of the national and the sub-nationals,” he said.
“Well, you should know, based on our party constitution, the
structure of the parties starts from the ward. The wards are owned by the
governors and the state party chairmen,” he added. “We have very little job
here to do, just coordination.”
Speaking on how he was nominated by the governors, he said,
“They endorsed me.”
Asked the kind of politics he played to attain this position
without having a governor in his state, he explained, “You can see how
exemplary APC displayed. Very smooth, very mature, no controversy, because this
party is built on consultation.
“So almost everything was done based on consultations. You
consult, you discuss, because that is what politics is all about. It was consultation
at all levels.”
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