Nentawe Still APC's Guber Candidate - Party 

The All Progressive Congress (APC) in Plateau State on Wednesday said Nentawe Yilwatda remains the party's bonafide gubernatorial candidate in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in the state.

This was contained in a press release made available to newsmen in Jos and signed by Hon Sylvanus Namang, the APC State Publicity Secretary.

The statement disclosed that the APC has read and watched with keen interest tales about Yilwatda who without mincing words remains the party's credible candidate for the 2023 general elections.

"The claims and counter claims about his candidature are distractions which the party seriously frowns at."

The statement also added that some of the claims and comments against his candidature are products of absurdity while others are mischievous and diversionary. 

"Before now, the issue had been the laughable claim that the gubernatorial candidate had not been issued a certificate of return by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

"This is based ignorance as INEC issues certificate of return only to candidates who have won an election conducted by it.

"Perhaps based on the morbid fear of the APC gubernatorial candidate by the opposition parties based on his intimidating credentials, which have given them sleepless night, they have conceded defeat ahead the 2023 gubernatorial election.

"Dr Nentawe Yilwatda duly met all the set conditions and provisions of the guidelines and constitution of the APC before contesting the primary election on June 5, 2022.

"Accusation of the Governor Simon Lalong who is the leader of the party but who himself like his colleagues in other states was not a delegate at the gubernatorial primary election need to cease in order to allow the party concentrate on the elections ahead.

"There is the need to demonstrate sportsmanship and without necessarily sermonising, God gives power to who he desires and no one's destiny can be stopped by a mortal that we all are."