APC Presidential Campaign Council director-general Abdulaziz Yari says northern Nigeria should back President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid ahead of the 2027 elections, arguing that Tinubu backed former President Muhammadu Buhari when the North was in charge. Yari links the call to what he describes as reciprocity for Tinubu’s decision to allow the North to complete its full term.
Yari delivers the message during APC-related political engagements in Lagos, including a visit by members of the PCC to the palace of Oba Rilwan Akiolu. He says there was internal pressure for Tinubu to run in 2019, but Tinubu resisted and maintained that it was the North’s turn. According to Yari, Tinubu also supported Buhari’s political programme through to the end of Buhari’s tenure.
Across the reports, the emphasis is on Yari’s argument that there is “no excuse” for Northerners not to support Tinubu, with both outlets describing the support-for-Buhari justification and the timing as 2027. Differences are mainly in phrasing and focus: one account frames the statement as “repaying” Tinubu, while another stresses the lack of reason to refuse support and references the PCC’s visit to traditional leadership.
