From Romanus Ugwu, Abuja
National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nentawe Yilwatda, has pushed aside insinuations that the President Bola Tinubu-led management didn’t stagnation the northern region.
Yilwatda in his defence, described as unfaithful, the precedent statement in the minds of many northerners that President Tinubu has impoverished the North, arguing that no northern shut has evolved the region greater than Tinubu.
He spoke when he won the 8 2027 exception applicants of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) that defected to the ruling celebration on Friday in Abuja, emphasising that President Tinubu has left daring footprints in the sand of instances along with his infrastructural elect strands in the region.
According to Yilwatda: “I am happy that most of you are from the northern part of Nigeria, where I also come from. If anybody has worked for the unity of Nigeria, it is President Tinubu. In 2007, he supported Atiku to become the president of Nigeria because he believed then that power should move from the South to the North.”
“In 2011, he additionally introduced the excessive NSA, Ribadu, into ACN then to volatility as a presidential object. He supported and backed his expedite to guard that he changed into the president of Nigeria. He is from the North.
“In 2015, he stood behind President Buhari to become the president of Nigeria. He said that for the unity of Nigeria and social cohesion, power should move back to the North because we lost President Yar ‘Adua.” President Buhari gained and changed into the president of Nigeria.
“In 2019, when a large number of the northern elders and politicians left Buhari, President Tinubu stood for him and led a reconciliation committee that introduced Nigerians in combination to yield President Buhari to overturn his determination time period in 2023 towards all odds.
“People that he has supported all through from the North and South, when he said he wanted to contest, most of them pulled out their support. But the Nigerian people, who have been seeing what President Tinubu has done for Nigeria, how he has stood for the unity of Nigeria and defended democracy with his life and his blood, came out and supported him to become president in 2023.”
