Endorsement
By Aminu Garko
Kano, Stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State have endorsed President Bola Tinubu as the party’s sole presidential candidate for the 2027 general election.
The News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) reports that the decision was reached at a meeting held at the Coronation Hall, Government House, Kano.
The Managing Director of the Hadejia Jama’are River Basin Development Authority, Rabiu Suleiman Bichi, moved the motion for Tinubu’s adoption.
It was seconded by former Secretary to the State Government, Dr. Abdullahi Baffa Bichi.
Although President Tinubu has already picked his Expression of interest and nomination forms for the APC ticket, the stakeholders demonstrated support by raising N50 million to offset 50 per cent of the N100 million cost.
The forms were obtained by the Chairman, House Committee on Finance, James Abiodun Faleke.
The stakeholders also endorsed Gov. Abba Yusuf as the APC’s sole governorship candidate for the 2027 polls.
The motion was moved by the immediate past state chairman, Abdullahi Abbas, and seconded by Sen. Bello Gwarzo, a former PDP leader who recently joined the APC.
Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, Jibril Ismail Falgore, put the motions to the floor, and they were unanimously adopted.
The governor’s Expression of interest and nomination forms for the APC ticket have also been obtained.
During the meeting, Yusuf conveyed the President’s message urging unity in the Kano chapter of the party.
According to him, Tinubu also advised that candidates should emerge by consensus, with primaries only where compromise fails.
Other stakeholders present included immediate past APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje; former Deputy Governor, Prof. Hafiz Abubakar; former Minister of State for Housing, Abdullahi Tijjani Gwarzo.
Others are members of the National Assembly, Deputy Senate President Barau Jibrin and former Governor Ibrahim Shekarau.
Speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Suleiman Bichi said President Tinubu is on course for a landslide victory in Kano in 2027due to the unprecedented consolidation of the APC political structure in the state.
He said that the party’s major blocs from the Ganduje legacy structure to the National Assembly caucus led by Deputy Senate President Barau Jibrin, and recent high-profile defectors from the PDP and NNPP, have all united behind Tinubu’s sole candidacy.
“Tinubu will win Kano by a landslide in 2027 because the political arithmetic that defined 2023 has been upended.
“That level of elite consensus was absent in 2023 and gives the APC unmatched reach across Kano’s 44 Local Government Areas.
“The public fundraising of N50 million to offset half of the President’s nomination forms further demonstrates a mobilisation capacity the opposition cannot match,” he said.
Bichi, who was the 2023 APC Campaign Director-General for Tinubu in Kano, said the President’s delivery on federal projects and appointments has realigned grassroots sentiment.
“From the Kano-Maradi rail line to expanded irrigation under the Hadejia-Jama’are River Basin, and the inclusion of Kano indigenes in strategic federal roles, people see a President who keeps faith with the state.
“With Gov. Yusuf’s defection bringing state and federal structures under one roof, Tinubu enters 2027 with both incumbency advantage and a merged political machine.
“In Kano’s electoral history, that combination has always produced a landslide.” (NAN)( w
