In the wake of reports that some aggrieved northern elements and politically displaced politicians were gathering against the assumed second-term aspiration of President Bola Tinubu, the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje has said that the President would complete the eight years of the South before power shifts to the North in 2031.
Granting audience to a delegation of the Tinubu Northern Youth Forum on Tuesday in Abuja, Ganduje, a former governor of highly populated Kano State, praised the group for articulating its goals and developing useful election data. He said that the APC is ready to provide it with all the assistance that it needs.
Ganduje said: ‘I have even seen that you are assisting the government in public enlightenment for people to understand the tax reform agenda. This tax reform, initially was misunderstood, but in the course of time there was a lot of public engagement. I think people have come to understand the whole purpose of the tax reforms.
‘If support organisations like you, whenever there is an agenda by the federal government if such support groups will come in, in order to assist, then it will form public enlightenment and inclusiveness in the running of the government. So we thank you.
‘We have seen your plan in order to mobilize voters in respect of the 2027 election. This is very encouraging. I have to congratulate you for this. And also, you know, our president is for the North, our president is for the South, our president is for the six geopolitical zones and we have been receiving support groups from all the six geopolitical zones.
‘We are happy that our party believes in zoning. When a leader from the northern part of this country was in office for eight years, we advocated that the next president in our party should come from the South, and luckily enough, we worked very hard with the cooperation of Nigerians.
‘Our president has come from the south and he going, by God’s grace, for a second term in 2027. And then after that, it will be turned to the northern part of this country.
‘So this northern youth forum, I believe we are on the right course and we encourage you to continue working on that. We will study your documents and we shall see areas of cooperation’.
