The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, has emerged the national chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC).
His emergence was formally announced on Thursday during the national executive council (NEC) meeting of the APC at the State House, Abuja.
The meeting had in attendance President Bola Tinubu, the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF) and top party officials.
Mr Yilwatda, born on August 8, 1968, is an engineer and former lecturer and ICT director at the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Benue State. Between July 2017 and December 2021, he served as the Independent National Electoral Commission’s resident electoral commissioner in Benue State.
He quit the INEC in 2022 to join politics and contested the Plateau State gubernatorial elections in 2023 under the platform of the APC. He lost to Caleb Muftwang of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. He was appointed minister of Humanitarian Affairs by President Tinubu, a position he held up till his APC chairmanship selection.
(Written with additional information from NAN)