Yilwatda, however, promised to take the decisions with gentle tone and incorporate teamwork in APC.
By Kehinde Okeowo
The new National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, has said he will take tough decisions while in charge of the party.
He made this known on Thursday while featuring on Channels Television programme, ‘Politics Today’.
The former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs also said he would follow in the footsteps of President Bola Tinubu.
He said, “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.”
The Plateau-born politician, however, promised to take the decisions with gentle tone and incorporate teamwork in APC.
Asked if he would be taking tough decisions too, 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.”
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He further assured 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.”
When asked the kind of politics he played to attain this position, Yilwatda 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.”
