Barely weeks after former Governor of Kano State, Umar Abdullahi Ganduje resigned as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, the party has announced the new National Chairman that will continue from where Ganduje stopped.
PREMIUM TIMES confirmed the development that the new National Chairman, Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda emerged as the consensus nominee. Prof. Yilwatda comes to the APC with a blend of academic, bureaucratic, and political experience.
Mr Yilwatda, the current Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and a former university don.
His emergence followed a late-night meeting in Abuja between President Bola Tinubu and governors elected on the platform of the APC, sources familiar with the development told PREMIUM TIMES. The party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) is expected to ratify his appointment at a meeting scheduled for later today.
