A group of stakeholders from the North-Central zone of the party has called on President Bola Tinubu to drop Vice President Kashim Shettima as running mate in 2027.
The stakeholders asked the President to choose his running mate from their zone if the President wants their support for his re-election.
Sunday PUNCH gathered that the stakeholders have begun consultation with political bigwigs and former public office holders to actualise their aspiration.
The stakeholders held a closed-door meeting on Saturday with the former National Security Adviser, General Aliyu Gusau (rtd.), the Onah of Abaji, His Royal Highness, Musa Yunusa, a former lawmaker, Senator John Danboyi, and other undisclosed individuals to push for the agenda of North Central presidency.
Chairman of the North-Central Renaissance Movement, Prof. Nghargbu K’tso, who is the leader of the delegation, disclosed this in a statement shared with Sunday PUNCH.
The statement read: ‘The North Central is strengthening advocacy for the return of presidency to the zone come 2027 through high-level consultations with prominent figures in the geo-political zone and Nigeria at large.
‘We appealed for the cooperation of Nigerians to make the agitation a reality and put the region in the equation of other zones who have enjoyed the constitutional right of producing president and vice president in Nigeria as the zone has what it takes to lead rather than to be led all the times’.
The move comes two days after the same group and party leaders from the region announced at a press conference that they had agreed to work together to produce the next President after 65 years of marginalisation.
