Thousands flood Kaduna streets ahead of APC presidential campaign rally
Thousands of APC supporters on Friday joined a solidarity walk in Kaduna ahead of President Bola Tinubu’s presidential campaign rally on Saturday. Read More:…
Kaduna State is hosting the flag-off of the All Progressives Congress' 2027 presidential campaign, with President Bola Tinubu expected to headline a rally that the ruling party has sought to project as a show of strength ahead of the next election cycle. The build-up has drawn large crowds of party supporters into the streets for a solidarity march, underscoring the APC's effort to demonstrate grassroots backing in the North-West, a region critical to its electoral fortunes.
Coverage of the lead-up has, however, been complicated by a separate controversy: a circulating document alleged that Governor Uba Sani's administration had approved ₦2.3 trillion in state funds for the rally, a claim the Kaduna State Government has publicly rejected as fake. While reports on the crowd turnout largely agree on the scale of the march and its timing ahead of Saturday's event, questions around who is funding the rally and how much it is costing remain unresolved, with the state government's denial yet to be independently verified against the original document.