THERE IS NO RIFT BETWEEN APC GUBER CANDIDATE AND PARTY'S SWC.

THERE IS NO RIFT BETWEEN APC GUBER CANDIDATE AND PARTY'S SWC. 

The Plateau State Chapter of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) has debunked the a publication trending in some social media space centering on rift between the party's gubernatorial candidate, Dr Nentawe Yilwatda and the party's State Working Committee, SWC and the Presidential Campaign Council,  PCC in the state.

A statement made available to this medium and was signed by Hon. Sylvanus Namang,

 APC State Publicity Secretary stated that the attention of the All Progressives Congress in Plateau State has been drawn to an unsigned publication trending in some social media space centering on rift between the party's gubernatorial candidate, Dr Nentawe Yilwatda and the party's State Working Committee, SWC and the Presidential Campaign Council,  PCC in the state. 

 According to the cowardly and carefully crafted statement, the APC candidate has abandoned and frustrated the party machinery and even  went to the ridiculous extent of accusing him of addressing the state Chairman as incompetent during his different consultations!

 It also alleged that Dr Nentawe has turned the party in the state into a one- man- show and has promised to dissolve the legally elected Local Government Councils and the State Working Committee of the party when elected among sundry other weird allegations. 

 The All Progressives Congress in the state hereby unequivocally and in no uncertain terms dismisses the allegations as figment of imagination which exist only in the realms of its propagators who are clear  agents of disunity and hatred for the APC. 

 The APC is, however, not surprised about this development as the the incontrovertible emergence of Dr  Nentawe Goshwe as the party's gubernatorial candidate since June last year has unsettled the opposition and those who believe that Plateau state begins and ends with them.

 His revolutionary, captivating and apt choice of GenerationNext and the ACEES programme which bother on the future of the youth and a new Plateau State has created great discomfort for people  who believe in the old ways of doing things.

This explains why several efforts have been made to scuttle his candidacy with multiple court cases which have collapsed like pack of cards.

 These orchestrated and ridiculous challenges have gone to the extreme of resurrecting a court case by some willing agents and stooges of these disgruntled elements more than a year after a duly agreed out of court settlement which the complainants on their own volition withdrew the case in court but have now surprisingly gone on to the  Appeal Court which is a clear distraction.

 The APC in the state is fully aware of the insidious plans by the opposition and those who do not wish the APC and Plateau State well to destabilise the candidate and the party up to the general elections. 

 Let us assure all and sundry  that there is no stopping the youthful winning team of Dr Nentawe Yilwatda and Hon. Pam Bot Mang by God's grace. 

 The APC in Plateau state wants to inform, assure and reiterate that the party is solidly confident and stands by its gubernatorial candidate whose chances of winning the March 11 2023 elections is as bright as the morning star. 

 Dr Nentawe is a humble and loyal product of party in whom we are all proud of.

 There exist no rift of any sort between him and the party's  Chairman, the State Working Committee and all other party's structures. 

 There is no activity he embarks upon without the tacit approval of the party's leadership in the state.

 As an obedient and loyal party member, he intimates and visits the party's secretariat quite often for consultations and approval of his iterinary.

 The party has carefully designed its programme to fit into the electoral time table by INEC. 

 Dr Nentawe Yilwatda first embarked on a one- on- one reconciliation visits to all the gubernatorial aspirants he contested with to  pacify and solicit  them to key into his campaign programme. 

 Secondly, he along with the party's leadership, embarked on a Thank You visit which took him to all  the 17 Local Goverment Areas of the State. 

The workaholic, diligent and composed  gubernatorial candidate who is more than prepared for the job,has met  with the leadership of all the indigenous groups on the Plateau known as PIDAN and all other ethnic nationalities residing in Plateau state to solicit their support which has given the opposition parties in the state  sleepless nights. 

 His current Citizens Engagement with all strategic blocs in the state which  began three weeks  ago which would be concluded this weekend, has the full approval of the party in the state.

 In fact, the APC Chairman,  Hon. Rufus Bature is fully involved in this strategic engagement. 

 Why this is not treated as a full party affair is based on the selected audience for these interfaces.

This involves visiting traditional rulers at their various palaces across the state, interactive joint  sessions with representatives of religious leaders,  leaders of development associations along with their women and youth wings, strategic community stakeholders, Ardos, leaders of marketers association among others.

 In the process, all the party structures including Local Government Executive Chairmen who serve as cordinators of the on-going engagement in their respective local goverments are involved with all  the 325 Councillors we have, leadership of the Legislative Arms and ward, local government excos and state excos from the various local goverments are part of this all involving engagement. 

 From next week, the party will unfold its gubernatorial campaign council which will be all encompassing. This would would be followed by a none stop campaign dovetailing into the Presidential/ National Assembly elections on February 25th and  the gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections on March 11th.

Although the cowardly unsigned statement is of no cinsequence and effect on the fortunes of the APC in the state, our party believes that the statement is defeatist and acrimonious in nature mainly coming from the opposition.

 All these have the blessings of the leader of the party, in the state,  His Excellency Right Honourable Simon Bako Lalong who is also Campaign DG of the APC  Presidential Campaign Council.

 The APC would want to advise those who think they can stop the APC  awesome winning machinery not to waste  their time an energy and are advised to key into this winning team for a better, united, secured and prosperous Plateau State instead of these unhelpful and vain distraction.