Tinubu has done more for Plateau than past presidents — Yilwatda

By Golok Nanmwa JOS — National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, has said President Bola Tinubu has done more for Plateau State than previous Nigerian presidents, citing projects and interventions by the current administration. Yilwatda spoke on Wednesday at the PBAT Door-to-Door Movement rally in Jos, where he urged APC supporters to back Tinubu’s re-election bid in 2027, arguing that Plateau had no reason to support another presidential candidate. “Your son is the national chairman of the APC. We are part and parcel of the system. We are in the inner caucus of the system. We have no reason to thumbprint any other presidential candidate on the Plateau at all,” he said. “President Bola Tinubu is a friend of Plateau State. No president in the history of Nigeria has been able to stand with the state the way Mr President has done for us,” Yilwatda added.

The APC chairman also criticised former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, questioning the projects executed in Plateau during his eight years in office. “Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the ADC, was vice-president for eight years. Show me one road or one thing that we had on the Plateau. Show me one N10 billion project on the Plateau within that period,” he said. Yilwatda said previous administrations had offered the state relatively small interventions, citing boreholes and tricycles, popularly known as Keke NAPEP, in contrast with what he described as major projects being attracted by the Tinubu administration. “The best we could have in those days was a borehole, or they would bring Keke Napep for us. Today, the President is bringing major projects to the Plateau,” he said. He added that Tinubu had…