2027: North 101% For Tinubu – Yari
Director General of the All Progressives Congress(APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Abdulaziz Yari, has assured President Bola Tinubu that northern Nigeria is 101% behind him at the 2027 general election. Yari…
Abdulaziz Yari, a former two-term governor of Zamfara State and ex-chairman of the Nigeria Governors' Forum, was appointed Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council ahead of the 2027 election, placing him at the centre of the ruling party's mobilisation efforts across the country, particularly in the North. His comments on northern support for President Bola Tinubu come against the backdrop of lingering questions about Tinubu's standing in the region, which has historically been a decisive voting bloc and was a stronghold for the APC in the 2015 and 2019 elections before a more fractured outcome in 2023.
The two reports agree on the substance of Yari's pledge but differ slightly on the figure attributed to him, with one citing "100 percent" support and the other "101%," underscoring the hyperbolic, campaign-style rhetoric common among party officials projecting unity ahead of elections still years away. Neither account details specific strategies, funding, or structures the campaign council plans to deploy to secure this support, nor does either address potential opposition or dissent within northern APC ranks that could complicate such claims.