Early on Thursday morning, Festus Fuanter, the All Progressives Congress’s (APC) deputy national secretary, formally resigned from his post.
The rise of Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda, the party’s recently chosen National Chairman and a native of the Plateau state, served as the basis for Fuanter’s resignation.
The ruling party’s legislation, which states that two national officers cannot be from the same state, was followed by the resignation.
During the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting, the stakeholders already appointed Abdulkarim Abubakar Kana (SAN) as the party’s national legal adviser.
Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, the immediate past national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has received praise from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his services to the party, particularly the creation of the Progressive Institute.
At Thursday’s APC National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in Abuja, Tinubu commended Ganduje for his dedication to the party’s principles and declared that he will continue to serve as a consultant to the new national leadership.
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I assigned him a task involving the establishment of a Progressive Institute. The President stated, “We can still take him [Ganduje] as a consultant to work with the new chairman to do that.” The National Secretary will collaborate with the chairman to revitalize it.
President Tinubu announced a change in the dates of the States, Local Government, and Ward congresses to December in an attempt to accommodate a wave of anticipated defectors.
Given the emergence of opposition coalitions, this delay is generally interpreted as a component of the APC’s larger realignment efforts to strengthen its ranks in advance of the general elections in 2027.
The official emergence of Professor Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, as the new APC National Chairman was said to be the high point of the NEC meeting.
The Progressive Governors’ Forum chairman, Governor Hope Uzodimma, proposed Yilwatda’s nomination, and Tajudeen Abbas, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, seconded it.
