By Kolawole Ojebisi
Stakeholders from the North-Central zone of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has given President Bola Tinubu the only condition that can make him earn their unflinching support.
This is as the North Central bigwigs asked Tinubu to drop his second-in-command, Kashim Shettima, as running mate in 2027.
The stakeholders asked Tinubu to choose his running mate from their zone if the President wants their support for his re-election.
It was gathered that the stakeholders have begun consultation with political bigwigs and former public office holders to actualise their aspiration.
The stakeholders reportedly held a closed-door meeting on Saturday with the former National Security Adviser, Gen. Aliyu Gusau (retd), the Onah of Abaji, His Royal Highness, Musa Yunusa, a former lawmaker, Senator John Danboyi, and other undisclosed individuals to push for the agenda of North Central presidency.
Chairman of the North-Central Renaissance Movement, Prof Nghargbu K’tso, who is the leader of the delegation, disclosed this in a statement shared with journalists on Sunday.
The statement read, “The North Central is strengthening advocacy for the return of presidency to the zone come 2027 through high-level consultations with prominent figures in the geo-political zone and Nigeria at large.”
“We appealed for the cooperation of Nigerians to make the agitation a reality and put the region in the equation of other zones who have enjoyed the constitutional right of producing president and vice president in Nigeria as the zone has what it takes to lead rather than to be led all the times.”
The move comes two days after hundreds of stakeholders and party leaders from the region announced at a press conference that they had agreed to work together to produce the next President after 65 years of marginalization.
