NewsOnline Nigeria reports that stakeholders from the North-Central zone of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged President Bola Tinubu to drop Vice President Kashim Shettima as his running mate in 2027.
This Nigeria news platform understands that the stakeholders are demanding that Tinubu choose his running mate from their zone if the President wants their support for his re-election.
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According to Punch, stakeholders have begun consultation with political bigwigs and former public office holders to actualise their aspiration.
Chairman of the North-Central Renaissance Movement, Nghargbu K’tso, who is the leader of the delegation, disclosed this in a statement shared with the aforementioned publication.
It was gathered that the stakeholders 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.
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.