Ahead of the 2027 general election, critical stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress(APC) in Kano State, have vowed to ensure the re-election of President Bola Tinubu and take over of the reins of power from New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP-led government in the North Western state.
The stakeholders led by the former APC national chairman, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, deputy president of the Senate, Senator Barau Jibrin and the House Representatives Appropriations Chairman, Hon. Abubakar Bichi said this while addressing journalists after a closed-door meeting in Abuja on Thursday.
Attendees at the meeting include the minister of state for Housing, Abdullahi Atta, Senator Kawu Sumaila, former Governor Kabiru Gaya, Sulaiman Bichi and Hon. Mohammed Garba and many serving and former national and states Assemblies, commissioners, among others.
Ganduje said the meeting was to examine the progress and successes that they have achieved in the party in Kano and assure President Tinubu that APC in the state is solidly behind him.
The former Kano state governor, said APC remains intact in the state despite not been able to retain power after the 2023 general election, stressing that with its growing strength, the party will sack the NNPP administration at the 2027 polls.
“We appreciate his (Tinubu) policy reforms. We appreciate the good work that he is doing for the country. We appreciate the good work he is doing for Kano state. And we appreciate all the appointments that he has made for the people of Kano state.
“You all know what happened during the last election. We were about to win the election but unfortunately we could not win the election. But since after that, our party has remained intact. Our party has remained solid. And because of the good policies of Mr President and also because of our political dexterity in the state, we are able to attract many important politicians from other political parties that have come into our own party.
“We have resolved that we will continue to work very hard to ensure that we succeed in the next gubernatorial election in Kano state. We are also here to strategise. We are here to see how we can encourage our people to go and register for the ongoing voter registration exercise.
So far we are doing very well. And we want to assure the people of Kano State that our members will register so that during the election we come out in large numbers so that we can win the election,” he said.
Also speaking, Deputy Senate President Jibrin said the APC stakeholders in Kano were convinced of President Tinubu’s giant stride in Kano, north and the entire country, hence their resolve to work hard for his re-election.
“We discovered several projects have been implemented. Others are ongoing in our state and indeed the entire northern part of this country. We also discovered that so many people have been appointed to various offices in our state and indeed the entire nation, the entire northern part of Nigeria.
“We also understand, we also saw, we also examined the fact that our party is now growing from strength to strength because of several interventions made by Mr. President towards alleviating the sufferings of our people.
“We have urged and we have also propelled our people and propelled ourselves that we are going to do more to tell the people of our state and indeed the entire northern states what the President is doing and what he has done for our nation. We are solely behind him as said by the former National Chairman. We are behind him, we are solidly behind him because he loves us.
“We are behind him and we have urged our people, our party, faithful, that everybody, all the strategic stakeholders that are here, that they should go back home and continue to support, to tell their people to continue to support Mr. President, to continue to support APC and to continue to pray for our nation, to continue to pray for our President so that he will achieve his aim of bringing prosperity to our nation,” he said.
For his part, the House Appropriations chairman, Bichi said all those who were insinuating that Tinubu does not have north at heart are only playing cheap politics, saying the administration has done a lot for the state and region as well as the entire nation.
“In 2023 election, we came up with 600,000 votes to Mr. President. We may also note that the President has done extremely well in Kano State in terms of critical projects such as roads, if we consider from Abuja, Kaduna, Zaria, Kano is almost completed. Kano, Maiduguri section 1, 2, 3 and 4 almost completed. Kano Katsina project almost completed.
“And likely in the next 1 to 2 months Mr. President will come to Kano to lay foundation for the light rail project in Kano State.That project will cost more than 1 billion US dollars and of course is going to be one of the most important projects in Northern Nigeria.
“So for someone to say Mr. President is not interested in the North or in Kano State is all politics. And Kano State in 2027 will come all out and vote the President and APC Governor Isha Allah as well as our three central districts and members of the House of Representatives of the state,” Bichi said.