President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has expressed his “heartfelt” condolences to Nentawe Yilwatda, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), over the passing of his mother.
She passed at the University of Jos Teaching Hospital at the age of eighty-three (83) on Sunday 17 August, 2025.
The President’s Condolence was made known via a State House Press Release signed by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, on Monday 18 August, 2025.
President Tinubu described the ‘Broom’ Party Chairman’s mother as a “woman of virtue who lived a life dedicated to faith, service.”
The State House Press Release reads: “President Bola Tinubu expresses his heartfelt condolences to Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, on the passing of his mother, Mama Lydia Yilwatda.
“Mama Yilwatda died on Sunday morning at the University of Jos Teaching Hospital at the age of 83.
“President Tinubu describes her as a woman of virtue who lived a life dedicated to faith, service, and the uplifting of her community.
“The President enjoins the APC Chairman to accept her death as the will of Almighty God and be consoled by the life of purpose his mother lived.
“President Tinubu prays for the repose of the soul of Mama Yilwatda and beseeches God to grant Prof. Yilwatda, the entire family and all those Mama left behind the strength to bear the loss.”
