Yari Says North Will Back Tinubu in 2027

Abdulaziz Yari said northern Nigeria would support President Bola Tinubu’s 2027 re-election bid, presenting the claim at an All Progressives Congress campaign flagoff in Kaduna. Yari’s declaration was a campaign assertion and does not establish the level of voter support across the region. Yari, director-general of the APC Presidential Campaign Council and a former governor of Zamfara State, said the party was engaging traditional rulers, Islamic scholars, imams and other influential figures to build support. He described regional leaders and religious figures as important to the effort to explain the administration’s policies and encourage backing for Tinubu. Reports of his remarks gave different figures for the level of support he declared: one rendered the claim as 100 percent and another as 101 percent. The precise wording is not established by the accounts, and neither figure is independent evidence of voter intentions. Yari said the campaign would make the administration’s record a central part of its case to voters, citing infrastructure, healthcare, education, human capital development and social welfare. He also referred to cash-transfer programmes as an intervention...