Adamawa South APC Elders Endorse Chief Peter Leonard Ndwacho Fwa for Senate, Cite Two Decades of Visible Service and a 2019 Sacrifice for Party Unity

The elders and bona fide APC members of the Adamawa South Senatorial Zone have spoken with one voice, and the name they have put forward is Chief Peter Leonard Ndwacho Fwa.

In a formal endorsement statement issued on May 7, 2026, stakeholders representing all nine local government areas of the southern zone, covering Demsa, Numan, Lamurde, Guyuk, Shelleng, Ganye, Jada, Mayo-Belwa, and Toungo, unanimously declared Chief Fwa as their preferred and authentic candidate for the Adamawa South Senatorial seat ahead of the 2027 general elections.

The statement, addressed to distinguished guests and the press, was framed explicitly as a pre-primary positioning document rather than a post-primary endorsement. In a race whose alignment dynamics are still shifting, the elders chose to make their position public and unambiguous now: “In the event that ongoing alignments and realignments shape the direction of our party, Chief Peter Leonard Ndwacho Fwa remains our preferred and authentic candidate.”

The case the endorsing elders made for Chief Fwa rests on a specific combination of professional service, personal sacrifice, and community investment that spans more than two decades.

Chief Fwa is a certified Town Planner who served with the Federal Capital Development Authority in Abuja, rising to the position of Special Assistant to the Minister and contributing actively to the implementation of the Abuja Master Plan. He subsequently served as Personal Assistant to First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan, during which he facilitated empowerment programmes and attracted developmental interventions to Adamawa State, with a particular focus on the southern zone. Back in Adamawa, he applied that experience as General Manager of the Adamawa State Urban Development Authority, where he contributed to the implementation of the state’s master plan and played a role in the transformation of the Yola and Jimeta metropolises, including the development of Bekaji Road and several commercial hubs.

Beyond public institutional service, Chief Fwa has sponsored scholarships for indigent students, funded medical interventions including eye surgeries, supported youth empowerment and skills acquisition programmes, and engaged in peace-building and job creation efforts across the southern zone communities. The endorsing elders described these contributions as “visible, measurable, and people-orientated”, a formulation that draws a deliberate contrast with the record of other aspirants who have held public office but whose zone-level impact they find difficult to quantify.

His support for the APC as a party has also been material rather than merely declaratory. He provided high-tech equipment for campaign rallies across all 21 local government areas of Adamawa State, supported the campaign of Governor Fintiri that delivered electoral victory, and continued supporting the party at major events without seeking reimbursement. “These acts of service, sacrifice, and commitment distinguish him as a leader with capacity, compassion, and credibility,” the statement read.

The most politically significant element of Chief Fwa’s story, and the one the elders placed at the centre of their endorsement argument, is what happened in 2019.

He contested the Adamawa South Senatorial seat in that election cycle and, by the account of the endorsing elders, was widely accepted by delegates as the candidate of choice. Rather than press his advantage, he stepped down in deference to party unity and the counsel of elders, yielding to the candidate who eventually won the seat.

That act of deference is not a small thing in the culture of Nigerian party politics, where stepping down from a clear delegate advantage requires the kind of institutional loyalty that is rare and genuinely consequential. The endorsing elders framed it as the defining evidence of his character: “This singular act underscores his deep respect for party supremacy, discipline, and the collective interest above personal ambition.”

Having waited since 2019, continuing to serve the party and the community without agitation for appointments or personal gain, Chief Fwa now presents his senatorial aspiration not as an ambition he has been nursing but as a response, finally, to the call of the people who remember what he sacrificed and are asking him to try again with their full backing.

The endorsing elders concluded their statement with a direct appeal to Governor Fintiri, as leader of the APC in Adamawa State, and to the party’s leadership at all levels to align with their position and support Chief Fwa as the party’s flag bearer for Adamawa South in 2027.

The appeal is strategically timed. With the APC governorship primary scheduled and senatorial primaries to follow in the same cycle, the southern zone’s formal declaration of a preferred senatorial candidate places a specific expectation before the party leadership while the political alignment process is still in motion.

The elders expressed confidence that endorsing Chief Fwa would guarantee not only electoral victory for the APC but also “effective, responsive, and people-centred representation” for the people of the Adamawa South Senatorial District, a zone whose nine local government areas stretch from the Benue-Gongola river confluence through the Ganye Chiefdom highlands to the Mayo-Belwa agricultural corridor.

Chief Peter Leonard Ndwacho Fwa waited seven years after 2019. His community have now made clear they believe the wait was for a purpose.