RUNNING MATE: "I'M STILL CONSULTING, SAYS PLATEAU APC GOVERNORSHIP CANDIDATE

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By Sumayyah Olapade

Dr. Nentawe Yilwatda, the All Progressives Congress’s candidate for governor in Plateau State, stated on Monday that he was still debating who would run as his running mate in the upcoming general election in 2023.

This was said by Yilwatda, who officially announced his candidacy for governor on behalf of the APC more than a month ago, while he was in Jos, the state capital, to visit the state secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists.

He claims that I’m still talking to all the relevant parties in Plateau to make sure that the candidate I pick for my running mate would be well-liked by the electorate. Furthermore, I still have the legal time to accomplish that. So why should I be rushing now?

Yilwatda, who resigned from his post as the Independent National Electoral Commission’s resident electoral commissioner in Benue State to run for governor of Plateau, also claimed that, in contrast to popular belief, he was not a candidate of the state government but rather of the APC.

“I’m not a government employee. I would still have won the party’s nomination even if the APC wasn’t the dominant force in Plateau, he continued.

Yilwatda condemned the deaths and kidnappings that were occurring in the state and declared that, if elected governor, he would be ready to deal with this issue as well as other pressing issues.

“If you examine all the security issues in the Plateau, you will find that they are all territorial or religious inclined crisis.

If I become the governor of the state, I will create the Ministry of Internal Security to manage both the kinetic and non-kinetic dimensions of the security in the state

“I believe in big things and I will do big things for the people if elected, ” the governorship candidate assured.