Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, has been elected as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The emergence of the Minister was formally announced on Thursday during the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the APC at the State House, Abuja, Nigeria.
Yilwatda was adopted as a “consensus national chairman” by the NEC.
He succeeds Abdullahi Ganduje, who officially stepped down as national chairman on June 27.
President Bola Tinubu was in attendance of the meeting, and members of the Progressives Governors Form (PGF), and top officials of the APC.
An Engineer and Academic, Yilwatda is from Plateau State in North Central geopolitical zone.
The North Central had been clamouring for the return of the national chairmanship of the party to the zone.