Ahead of the 2027 general elections, former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, has said no politician from the North or South has the capacity to unseat President Bola Tinubu.
He made the declaration on Friday in Abuja when he played host to a Forum of Northern Nigeria Youth Leaders who paid him a courtesy visit.
The former Kano State Governor, who revealed that there was an agreement to cede the Presidency to the South after eight years’ tenure of former President Muhammadu Buhari, dismissed the gang-up against President Tinubu by certain leaders from the North.
He said: “Pertaining to the next election in 2027, those that are nursing or thinking otherwise, that the North will vote for another candidate other than Asiwaju, are making a big mistake.
“This is the first time Nigeria as a nation is lucky to have a politician as President. His constituency is politics, his upbringing is politics because he believes in the unity of this country. In fact, he struggled; he was even in exile for democracy to survive in Nigeria.
“So there is no better person to be elected in 2027 than Bola Ahmed Tinubu.”
Ganduje told the NNYL, whose membership cuts across the 19 states in the North that the Northern electorate, impressed by Tinubu’s feat in the last two years, would not abandon him for any other candidate.
He said: “Asiwaju has only been there for less than four years now, and we have seen the measures, the reforms that he undertook. The reforms that he introduced in order to improve the socio-economic development of this country.
“All the candidates who contested with him in 2023 promised to remove fuel subsidy; even the previous government promised to remove the subsidy, but nobody was bold enough to do that job. “But Asiwaju has succeeded in removing the subsidy, and now all the state Governors, irrespective of their political leaning, believe they are getting more and more funds for the development of their respective states.
“He did not say that he removed the subsidy because he wanted to improve the APC governors, but he did it for the nation. So, this President has undertaken measures that will improve the economy of this country.”
He further praised the group for its commitment to ensuring a fresh mandate for Tinubu.
“There’s no better commitment than this. You are contributing funds, you are also contributing your brain, you are contributing your energy, and you are contributing your time to ensure the re-election of Asiwaju. I have to thank you for this.”
Earlier in his remarks, the leader of the Forum, Murtala Gamji said his Forum would continue to mobilise for Tinubu’s victory as he claimed that ” no President, nobody has supported us in the North like Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.”
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