2027: Ganduje reveals who Northern Nigerians will vote for

Abdullahi Ganduje, the former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has allayed fears that Nigerians from the Northern part of the country will not vote for President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election.

Ganduje said those who believe that Tinubu will not secure votes for his re-election from the region are making a big mistake.

The former governor of Kano State said this while speaking on Friday in Abuja when a delegation of the Northern Nigeria Youth Leaders from the 19 states of the North, paid him a courtesy visit to decorate him as the patron of the Forum.

According to the former APC national chairman, no better candidate from the southern part of Nigeria can steer the affairs of the nation beyond 2027 than Tinubu.

He also described Nigeria as being lucky to have the first President – who is a real politician in Tinubu.

His words, “Pertaining to the next election in 2027, those who 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 said.

He further revealed that there was an agreement before the emergence of late Muhammadu Buhari as president that after his tenure, a southerner would govern the nation.

“Asiwaju has only been there for less than four years now and we have seen the measures and reforms that he undertook. The reforms that he introduced to improve the social and economic development of this country.”

On some of the reforms of the president administration, Ganduje said all the candidates who contested with Tinubu in 2023 promised to remove fuel subsidy among other pledgedo

Also assuring the Northern Nigeria Youth Leaders of his support for the organisation, the former governor appreciated them for their boldness not only to mobilise votes for the re-election of Asiwaju but also to raise money to purchase his nomination forms.

In his address, the national leader of the group, Murtala Gamji described Ganduje as a role model.

Gamji noted that as a Governor of Kano State, Ganduje made him one of the most popular youth leaders through his support.

“We are here to tell you that wherever you focus that’s where we go with you. We have all agreed to support the re-election of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu by massively mobilising all the youths in the 19 Northern states and to raise fund to buy his nomination form ahead of the election.

“We have to do this because some people are insinuating that the North will not vote for Asiwaju in 2027, but that’s a lie because nobody has supported us in the North like Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,” Gamji added.