A support group for Bola Tinubu in the North West has urged the president-elect to consolidate on the electoral gains he made from the region and never to compromise it.
In a statement signed by the North West youth leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdulalmid Umar, yesterday, in Kano, the group expressed confidence that the president-elect would be building on the strong political capital he got during the last election in the North West by compensating the zone with the Senate Presidency.
He said anything contrary would not be futuristic.
“If he sidestepped, the zone, which returned the greatest votes for the president-elect, would be discouraged and see no reason to work as hard or harder in the next election,” the group said, adding that it might be tempted to go for a Northern candidate in the next election if ignored.
Umar, who attested to the hard work put in to deliver huge votes for the APC despite formidable opponents in the zone from other political parties, said it would only be proper to compensate them with zoning the Senate’s number one job to the North West.
“The president-elect should be consolidating on the high votes he recorded in our zone to override attempts that both PDP and NNPP will make to muzzle APC.
“The pressure will be too much on our party and membership if we do not have a formidable force to withstand pressures from opposing parties, who already have Kano governorship and four out of the six governors from the zone.
“To retain our relevance in the zone, push ahead to gain more grounds, as well as consolidate on our electoral performance, the zone, more than any other, should have the Senate president,” the group stressed.
The request, Umar said, is further supported by the fact that they have an eminently qualified candidate who fits the bill in the person of a three-time senator, Barau Jubrin.
