The All Progressives Congress Grassroots Governance Group (APC G3) has dismissed as baseless the risk by former Zamfara Central lawmaker, Senator Kabiru Marafa to cut back President Bola Tinubu’s votes by a million within the 2027 common elections.
Marafa, who not too long ago resigned from the APC, made the declare on Monday in a Channels Tv’s programme, ‘Politics Right now’, vowing to mobilise in opposition to the President within the subsequent elections.
Reacting in an announcement on Tuesday, the APC G3 described the risk as hole, saying that President Tinubu’s precedence was to handle challenges dealing with the North and different elements of the nation, not politics of 2027.
The group, in an announcement signed by its Nationwide Coordinator, Amechi Chuks Oyema, stated the Tinubu-led administration was quietly working throughout varied sectors to ship initiatives that might profit the folks of Zamfara, the North and the nation at massive.
“The President is conscious of the sacrifices of people that labored for his election and, on the identical time, he’s working to fulfil his guarantees to the generality of Nigerians,” APC G3 stated.
Backing the group’s place, Director-Common of the Finances Workplace, Dr. Tanimu Yakubu, famous that greater than half of the capital budgets for 2024 and 2025 have been allotted to initiatives in Northern Nigeria.
“Opposite to politically motivated narratives, Northern Nigeria just isn’t on the margins; it’s on the coronary heart of federal funding priorities. Over 50 per cent of the capital price range for 2024 and 2025 is traceable to initiatives and programmes within the North when main nationwide trunk infrastructure and water basin investments are correctly accounted for,” Yakubu said.
Among the many flagship initiatives listed have been the Abuja–Kano Expressway dualisation, the ₦12.1 trillion Sokoto–Badagry Superhighway, the Kano–Maradi Customary Gauge Railway, the Zungeru–Kano Energy Transmission Line, inland dry ports in Funtua and Bauchi, and growth of airport runways in Katsina, Maiduguri and Kaduna.
“With all these, it’s apparent that President Tinubu just isn’t preoccupied with the 2027 elections, however working to uplift the North and different elements of the nation,” APC G3 added.
