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Fintiri, ministers storm party’s national headquarters
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From Romanus Ugwu, Abuja
The chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda, has quipped that members of the ruling party are very happy that the opposition parties are unable to organise themselves to compete favourably in elections.
Yilwatda spoke when he hosted the governor of Adamawa State, Ahmadu Fintiri, who paid his first official visit to the party’s national leadership at its headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday.
While responding to a question on whether the APC will have an opposition to confront during the 2027 presidential election, he said: “It is not our duty to organise the opposition. It is the duty of the opposition to organise themselves.
“And we are very happy if they can’t organise themselves because our duty is to ensure we win the election. We can’t go and start organising, funding and building the opposition.
“It is a competition. We are presenting our scorecard to Nigerians. Nigerians everywhere believe in us. And you can see that across the country, all the elections that we have conducted, the by-elections, the off-season elections, the APC has been winning left, right and centre.
“So, what they keep on saying is that Nigerians are against the APC. Who are the Nigerians? These same governors. These same voters. These same ordinary persons in society are the Nigerians. And we believe that Nigerians love the APC.
“They love Mr President. And we will soon, back in 2027, sustain the impact of the Renewal Agenda on the Nigerian economy and the Nigerian people,” he said.
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Earlier, he had received four ministers, comprising Atiku Bagudu, Budget and National Planning, Wale Edun, Finance and Coordinating Economy, Imaan Suleiman-Ibrahim, women affairs minister, Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, Foreign Affairs; and Hadiza Bala Usman, special adviser.
Commenting on their visit, Yilwatda said, “It is clear synergy. We want to create a clear synergy between the party and the executive. We want to ensure that because they are implementing the policies of the party, the promises we make to the people.
“We have a social contract between the people of Nigeria and the party. And we are ensuring that we supervise our side functions to ensure that all those promises that we committed ourselves to the people are being implemented.
“We are refreshing what has been done, what has not been done, how it can be done, and what we have done in excess. I think basically that was just why the ministers were around for us to have that little chat together,” he explained.
On his visit to the headquarters, Governor Fintiri said, “I am here today to show that we have fully aligned at the moment with the APC, because it is a homecoming for most of us.
“Today I am here officially to pay a courtesy call on the national chairman and the members of the NWC to further pledge my full loyalty to the party and to assure them that we have come to work and ensure that we also deliver on the electoral value.
“We want to show that we have come with it to the party in the next general election. And that is what matters to our party, the APC; the largest opposition, the PDP, as it were, seems to be depleted now,” he said.
Asked if the APC will have opposition to face in the 2027 presidential election, Governor Fintiri said, “I think, judging by the work done by Mr President, he deserves a second term. I think it is going to be smooth; it is going to be accepted by all Nigerians. Because of the microeconomic policy that he initiated, yes, it was rough for most of us because we are not used to it.
“But it has given a very positive result to us, and the country is really working in the right direction. It seems to be agreed by all of us that there is light at the end of the tunnel,” he said.
