- Agency Report
The Northern Nigeria Youth Leaders Forum (NNYLF), has disassociated itself from those demanding the resignation of Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, the All Progressives Congress (APC), National Chairman.
Mallam Murtala Gamji, the forum’s National President while speaking with newsmen on Saturday in Abuja, said those behind the call lacked moral and political standing to make such demand.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the NNYLF’s position came barely 24 hours after a group, the APC Youths Solidarity Network (APC-YSN) issued a two-week ultimatum asking Yilwatda to step aside or face mass action.
Gamji stated that since the assumption of office as APC national chairman, Yilwatda had been repositioning the party’s internal structures and had held series of high-level consultations across key Northern states.
He said the development was already boosting stakeholders’ confidence and resetting the APC’S 2027 mobilisation strategy.
NAN recalls that Mr Danesi Prince, the APC-YSN National Co-ordinator, in a recent statement, alleged that Yilwatda had “failed leadership tests in all parameters.”
He also said the party’s popularity was shrinking daily under Yilwatda’s watch, saying that this could complicate the APC’s chances in 2027 general election.
Gamji, however, described the Danesi-led group as a political hatchet team and not a legitimate APC affiliate.
“That individual calling on our national chairman to resign is not even a member of APC, we schooled together in ABU Zaria. He is from Auchi and a PDP member,” he said.
Gamji maintained that Yilwatda’s emergence as the APC national chairman had attracted high-profile actors including state Governors into its fold.
He warned that no attempt to destabilise the party’s current leadership would be tolerated ahead of 2027 general election.
Gamji also debunked claims that the APC national chairman was preventing Gov. Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau from defecting to the party.
“That can never be possible, the APC national chairman is a democrat and cannot stop any governor from joining the party.
“The governor himself admitted publicly that he is under pressure to join APC. Nobody is stopping him,”Gamji stressed.
He also dismissed calls on President Bola Tinubu to investigate the National Security Adviser (NSA), Malam Nuhu Ribadu, describing the sponsors of such calls as enemies of national stability. NAN