2027: APC group targets 1.5m votes for Tinubu’s re-election in Kano

Members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State have inaugurated a political help group, Asiwaju Kano for Asiwaju Jagaban (AKA), with a goal of mobilising no less than 1.5 million votes for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s re-election within the 2027 common elections.

The group, led by Hon. Leke Abejide, additionally inaugurated coordinators throughout the 44 native authorities areas of the state as a part of efforts to strengthen its grassroots mobilisation construction.

The initiative is especially concentrating on non-indigenes residing in Kano, with plans to mobilise their help for President Tinubu, Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf and different APC candidates within the forthcoming elections.

Speaking on the inauguration ceremony in Kano, the Chairman of the AKA Planning Committee, Hon. Ekundayo Emmanuel, mentioned the group was dedicated to securing no less than 1.5 million votes from non-indigenes throughout the state.

“Today, we are inaugurating coordinators across all 44 local government areas. Our responsibility is to mobilise at least one million five hundred thousand votes from non-indigenes residing across Kano State for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, our esteemed governor and leader, the people’s governor, Engineer Abba Kabir Yusuf, popularly known as Abba Gida Gida, as well as all APC candidates in the state,” he mentioned.

He added that the group was established to advertise the political imaginative and prescient of President Tinubu and Governor Yusuf, stressing that buildings had been being put in place to realize its mobilisation goal.

The Kano State Coordinator of AKA, Hon. Seyi Olorunsola, counseled Hon. Leke Abejide, a member of the House of Representatives representing Yagba East and Yagba West Federal Constituency of Kogi State, for returning to Kano, which he described as his homeland, to provide again to the communities.

Olorunsola mentioned Abejide had lately empowered greater than 300,000 individuals in Kano, together with practically 5,000 widows, as a part of his humanitarian interventions.

He mentioned the beneficiaries acquired N50,000 every, alongside baggage of rice and wrappers.

According to him, Abejide’s gesture was commendable, notably as different politicians who had risen to distinguished positions by means of their connections to Kano had not undertaken comparable initiatives to help communities within the state.

He mentioned Abejide’s resolution to return to Kano and contribute to the welfare of its residents demonstrated his dedication to giving again to his roots.

Speaking on behalf of the Yoruba group and different ethnic teams, the Chairman of the Yoruba Community in Kano, Olajide Johnson Ogunleye, referred to as on members to treat the mobilisation train as a collective duty and work in direction of reaching the group’s goal.

He urged them to take the message to their respective communities and mobilise help for the APC candidates.

“It is a duty and a call to action for every one of us to ensure that this vision becomes achievable. We must all see it as a task before us. We know the vision, and it is now time for each of us to communicate it to the people around us,” he mentioned.

Also talking, the Special Adviser to Governor Abba Yusuf on Information and Communication Technology, Yusuf Sharada, reiterated the state authorities’s dedication to inclusiveness, saying Kano considers everybody dwelling within the state a citizen, regardless of their homeland.

He described Kano as dwelling to individuals from totally different ethnic and cultural backgrounds and inspired them to proceed contributing to the event of the state.