A group, the Arewa New Agenda (ANA) has revealed that the northern region will vote massively for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu during the election.
The Convener and Leader of ANA, Senator Ahmad Abubakar MoAllahyidi disclosed this yesterday while briefing reporters in Abuja on the political developments ahead of the general election.
He disagreed with the insinuations that the north will not vote for Tinubu despite supporting a northern candidate in 2015 and 2019.
“The north has never failed to keep to its promise; when the north makes a covenant, the north keeps to it”, he stated.
MoAllahyidi said the north is the strongest ally of Tinubu in the contest for the 2023 primary in the same manner that the Southwest was an ally for the victory of the APC in the last two election cycles.
He further said that Chief Olusegun Obasanjo became the flag bearer of the PDP and won the 1999 and 2003 presidential elections mainly because of the backing he received from the north.
The ANA leader also said Tinubu scored 1,271 votes more than half of the total votes cast in the convention to win the primaries, the majority of these votes according to him came from the north. He said: “Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has visited many states in the north, made policy statements and made a committal promise to if God Almighty gives him the opportunity to serve as our next president, we the northerners will hold him accountable to that.”