Tinubu <\/a>had instructed him to collaborate closely with his predecessor.<\/p>\nYilwatda stated that his duty is just to coordinate the membership of the party.<\/p>\n
“My doors are open, the office is open, the partnership remains open, and the friendship remains open. So never lock your door against me.<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cHis Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has asked me to work with you, to reach out to you as well about partnership. I told him I would regard you still as a Chairman in partnership with me. You are still the co-Chairman of the party (APC).<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cI am only a coordinator. My duty is simply to coordinate the membership of this party. But the party belongs to all of us,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Yilwatda said.<\/p>\nYilwatda noted that Ganduje\u2019s long political career, which began in the days of the defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN), placed him in a position to provide valuable counsel.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt that time, I was only in primary school. I recall seeing Governor Rimi visit Solomon Lar in Jos in the 70s and 80s. One day, he came to commission a project at my school. I was just in Form 2, waving at them with my classmates. I never knew what politics truly meant.<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cBy then, people like you had already mastered the ropes of politics. So I need your experience, your guidance. I will depend heavily on your experience, your connections, and your contacts to ensure we solidify this party and build it together, so that we can win more elections,<\/em>\u201d Yilwatda said.<\/p>\nIn his response, Ganduje said his cordial relationship with the new APC chairman should serve as a model for resolving the long history of friction between political successors and predecessors in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne important thing is that the problem between the successor and his predecessor, which is one of the issues that the APC has solved.<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cSince 1999, the problem between former governors and their successors has always been an issue in many states. Not only in governorship, but in other political positions too.<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cSo our relationship is the beginning of solving that kind of problem, not only in the APC but in the wider atmosphere of democracy. I have to congratulate you for this new appointment,<\/em>\u201d the former APC chairman stated.<\/p>\nThe post ‘I Am Just A Coordinator, Ganduje Still APC Co-Chairman’ – Yilwatda Speaks After Weeks In Office appeared first on Naija News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nentawe Yilwatda, has described his predecessor and former Kano State governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, as \u201cCo-Chairman\u201d of the ruling party. Yilwatda said he would rely heavily on Ganduje\u2019s long-standing political experience, guidance, and networks to consolidate and strengthen the APC. Speaking in Abuja on Wednesday during a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":235086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[678,287,946],"class_list":["post-235085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-abdullahi-ganduje","tag-apc","tag-nentawe-yilwatda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/APC-Chairman-Yilwatda-1000x600.webp.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}