By Lanre Oloyede
Support Group of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, under the auspices of Northern Nigeria Youth Leaders Forum, has refuted claim that the National Chairman of APC, Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, is preventing the Plateau state governor, Caleb Muftwang, from joining the party.
National Leader of the group, Murtala Muhammed Gamji made the refutation while addressing journalists in Abuja at the weekend.
Gamji mintained that Yilwatda, who since assuming office has been working assidously to attract more members to the party, cannot be responsible for stalling the entrance of his own state governor in the party.
“That can never be possible. The national chairman has record as a gentleman, as a professional, as a democrat. This is somebody that needs people to come into the party and I heard the governor saying it face to face to people that he has a lot of pressure both outside and inside for him to join APC. But this lazy guy, these are people that Late Buhari called lazy youth, he’s saying that somebody is stopping the governor while the governor said they are pressuring him to come into APC and Momoh is saying that no, that is our national chairman that is stopping him. No, chairman cannot do that and the governor himself has not said that. He has not said that somebody is stopping him. So everybody and you can see how Taraba, Enugu, Bayelsa, other states and individuals are coming. A lot of senators, House of Representatives members and other ordinary people are trooping into APC because of the kind of humble leadership of Prof. So we disagree with him. Nobody is stopping the governor. The governor is welcome. We are in democracy and the national chairman is a democrat. So those type of things we disagree with it and we say no for him,”. Gamji stated.
The group also dissociate itself from a separate group calling for the resignation of the National Chairman.
While fielding questions from journalists on this, Gamji said the group is not known by the party and its leader, Prince Momoh is not a member of the APC.
Gamji said: “Any group or an individual who is calling on our national chairman to resign or they will embark on protest, first of all, Prince Momoh is not a member of APC. We schooled together in ABU Zaria, he’s from Auchi. He’s a member of PDP and they have even sanctioned him in Auchi’s PDP membership in Edo State. So we don’t know his link or his concern with our untouchable chairman. This is a leader that has just come into this party look at the kind of callibre of people they are trooping into this party. So somebody that is not a member of APC has never been a member of APC. We don’t know his reason or his concern about our noble chairman. But we knew that there are people behind him. There are people that are trying to temper or jeopardize the success of this great party under the leadership of Professor Yilwatda.”
