By Tokunbo2

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From Jude Owuamanam, Jos

Plateau Central Senator Diket Plang and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Isaac Wadak, have dismissed insinuations that the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, lacks the capacity to lead the party and to return President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the 2027 general elections.

Speaking to our correspondent in separate interviews in Jos against the backdrop of predictions by a cleric that Nentawe does not have what it takes to lead APC into the future and to deliver the presidency to the party in 2027, Plang and Wadak said that there is a world of difference between predictions and reality.

Wadak said Tinubu will not be unwise to place his destiny on the shoulders of a man whose capacity he doubts, adding that for the president to appoint Nentawe as the national chairman of APC, he (president) must have weighed all options, both the capacity and capability of the appointee to deliver.

“We must understand the difference between predictions and prophecies. One is based on empirical data and analysis and the other divine. What primate dishes out to the public are mere predictions or better yet, his opinion or commentary on public or world affairs. Mostly intended to generate debates or discourse. He predicted (or it is prophesied) that Kamala Harris will win the US election. Also the match between Luton and Liverpool and so many others. Which of them came to pass. In time past if prophecies do not come to pass the prophets are stoned. Thank God for we are in the period of grace.”

Plang said that he has not seen any precedent or attitude that suggested that Nentawe lacked the capacity to lead APC into the next general elections, adding that it is the prayer of every member of the ruling party that it succeeds in 2027 with Tinubu returning as the president for a second tenure.

He said, “We pray that he succeeds. We pray that all of us holding offices, that we succeed for the benefit of the people with the present national leadership of the party. Human beings predict. Their prediction may come true or not. May the people of Plateau be a participant in the return of Tinubu in 2027. And for the fact that Tinubu has a hand in making our son a busy chairman, may we succeed in delivering him. I believe that greater things are yet to come with Nentawe as the national chairman of our great party. And I assure you as a professor, a professor of engineering, telecommunications, young, healthy, and then a young man of great integrity, I don’t see any bad attitudes that you will display that will lead to people rejecting the party.

“The party is structurally organized. Nentawe will deliver. You know, there are visions and visions. I didn’t know what he saw. And I didn’t know who appeared to him. But I know it is not God that spoke. When someone just spoke on behalf of God, and I don’t know whether the vision is coming from heaven or from the sea, and therefore I’m not a judge to it, but I said God defines human being, we only predict.

“The prediction is that Nentawe will deliver. I think so.”

Plang also dismissed insinuations that the ruling party is penetrating and using cronies to destabilise other political parties, saying that it is foolish for any party to allow itself to be destroyed by another party.

The senator, who is the chairman senate committee on labour, employment and productivity, said, “If other parties are having internal crises, what has that got to do with APC. The political field is a competitive market. What the people want to buy by casting their votes for you is what you’re bringing into the market. So for me, I don’t think that the PDP are so ignorant, so unwise, that somebody will come into your house and divide you. If you are allowed to divide, it means you have a problem. What the APC is rather doing is capitalising on the division in the PDP by wooing the members who see a rising sun in the new APC leadership.”