Newly Sworn-in APC National Chairman Says Party has Capacity to Welcome More New Members
By Raphael Ekpang
Abuja (Core Reporters) The newly inaugurated national chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Professor Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda has assured members of opposition political parties of the party capacity to welcome more new members into its fold. He noted that currently APC has a bout 70 Senators in the upper chamber out of 109, and more are still expected to join the fold.
Prof. Yilwatda made this known on Thursday in Abuja while addressing journalists at the party national secretariat shortly after his emergence as the party supremo.
Prof. Yilwatda, wasted no time in hitting the ground running as he resumed office immediately after being sworn-in.
He also described president Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the progressive governors, APC members of the national assembly and well as other party leaders as drivers and the repairers of the project Nigeria. Adding that with Tinubu Nigeria is in safer hands.
Core Reporters understand that Prof. Yilwatda emerged the national chairman of the APC during its National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting held at the State House in Abuja.
The new national chairman, in company with his supporters made a triumphant entry into the Party’s National Secretariat, while presiding over his first National Working Committee (NWC) meeting.
He tasked members of the NWC on collective efforts to move the Party to a more desirable height saying, “I know that I have people around me, veterans, supporters, friends as members of the National Working Committee. You’ve been my friend, you’ve been my partner and I expect nothing less from you, than joining hands together as a team, working together to ensure that we expand this party.
“We will increase membership, we will deepen technology that you have already started and ensure that this Party is transparent.
“This Party enjoys the support of Nigerians and even beyond the shores of Nigeria to diaspora, they recognise all the members of the Party who are working for it. It’s you that has made this Party tick.
“The trust that you have for APC and the Renewed Hope Agenda of Mr. President, will drive us to help the Executive and the people of Nigeria,
“Like I said in my acceptance speech, all of us here, especially the NWC, we are the mechanics, the Party is a vehicle, we will fix it, we will drive it, we will work on it and ensure that we get to the destination of our choice.
“It’s our collective effort and I’m sure by the time we put our hands on the deck collectively, this Party will be greater, this party will be the joy and the pride of the entire nation and that’s what I look forward to under our collective leadership”, he stated.
