The All Progressives Congress (APC) will retain the presidency, the six North-west states and reclaim Sokoto state from the Peoples Democratic Party, APC Vice Chairman, North-west zone, Dr. Salihu Mohammed Lukman has said. Addressing the media after meeting with the APC state chairmen in the zone on Friday, Salihu said the party is ready to flag-off its campaigns for the presidential, gubernatorial, National Assembly and state assemblies’ candidates in the zone.

“We recall that North-west zone remains the backbone of our party. We took report of our readiness at each state and reviewed the development at the national level and we are optimistic that APC will sweep the polls in the North-west zone. We are taking every step to organise ourselves and pull the votes as usual. We don’t have any fear to succeed, to pull the votes and APC will win at the center and all our North-west states including even Sokoto state.

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“The APC presidential campaign in North-west zone will commence from Kaduna on December 12th, we have agreed to make some recommendations from the presidential campaign council on what needs to be done. Stakeholders’ meeting of the zone should properly plan on the takeoff of the campaign in the North-west. We have secured a presidential campaign office for the zone along Independence Way, it should be ready within one week,” Salihu said.

“North-West as it is today, remains at the back bone of our party in the country and we have to take every step to demonstrate that, truly North West is the backbone of our party during the campaign. We don’t have any fear at the moment that we will succeed in pulling the votes from the North-West. By God’s grace, APC will remain the party in power at the national level and all our states, including Sokoto which is today not our state; we are going to reclaim it,” he added.