Nigeria’s President Tinubu, to visit Gov Mutfwang’s transformed Plateau on Saturday

Nigeria

For the first time since assumption of office, Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu will be visiting Plateau State on Saturday October 4, 2025, to attend the burial ceremony of the mother of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, Prof. Nentawa Yilwatda.

Late Mama Yilwatda died on the 17th of August, 2025.

The hitherto troubled Plateau, characterized with incessant crisis thereby slowing development, has worn a new look since Governor Caleb Mutfwang took over the rains of power.

Though threatened by a wave of crisis, immediately after assuming office, Governor Mutfwang matched words with action by deploying tactical mechanisms in addressing the wanton killings.

Unlike the immediate past government that blamed the killings on opposition politicians, Mutfwang took a bold step to uproot and address the issues that have always triggered the crisis.

One of the measures that seems to permanently end the reoccurrence of the conflicts if sustained, is the recently constituted 10 man Fact-Finding committee headed by Major-General Nicholas Rogers (rtd), to look into the incessant violence and killings by terrorists and bandits.

The committee has concluded its assignment and submitted its findings to the Governor.

Rather than President Tinubu, visiting the State on the heels of the usual crisis claiming scores of lives, he will be welcomed to a crisis free State, with the ambiance of a relaxed environment and face-lifted infrastructures.

Mutfwang, like a bolt out of the blue, is armed not only with a singular passion to change the ugly trend of wanton killings, but to also transform the State to a modern and contemporary city to compete with the top major cities in the country.

Tinubu will visit a clean and serene city as road side and street trading can no longer be sighted on the major streets as it has been prohibited with an executive order since last year.

Street lights have brightened the State making it difficult to differentiate the night from the day time.

Roads are constructed linking communities paving way for free movement of vehicles.

All these have happened just two years ago, on May 29, 2023, when the people of Plateau welcomed a new Governor with cautious hope, but also with a healthy dose of skepticism, having seen so many other Governors come and go, like ships that passed in the night, wondering if it would be same old same old.