28/08/2025
APC: Tinubu directed me to work with Ganduje - Yilwatda
National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Nentawe Yilwatda has revealed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed him to work hand-in-hand with the former National Chairman of the party, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.
Yilwatda, who described himself as a coordinator of the APC for now, added that he will depend heavily on Dr. Ganduje’s experience and knowledge to run the party.
Speaking Wednesday in Abuja during a condolences visit paid on him over the loss of his mother by the immidiate past National Chairman, Yilwatda declared that he would need experience, guidance and the learning curve of Ganduje.
According to him, my doors are open, the office is open, the partnership remains open, and the friendship remains open. So never lock your door against me—and I know you will not—because we have worked together long before this time.
He said: "His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has asked me to work with you, to reach out to you as well about partnership. I told him I would regard you still as a Chairman in partnership with me. You are still the co-Chairman of the party (APC).
"I am only a coordinator. My duty is simply to coordinate the membership of this party. But the party belongs to all of us.
"We are all collective leaders of the party. Moreover, by experience and by virtue of politics, you have been there long before me. Since the time of the NPN, you have been part of the political scene.
"At that time, I was only in primary school. I recall that we used to see Governor Rimi come to Jos in the 70s and 80s to visit Solomon Lar. One day, he came to commission a project at my school. I was just in Form 2, waving at them along with my classmates — I never knew what politics truly meant. By then, people like you had already mastered the ropes of politics, while we didn’t even know the definition of politics.
"So I need your experience.
