The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, insists that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu would serve out his two terms of eight years in office spanning between 2023 to 2031.
Ganduje spoke against the backdrop of a warning by former Governor of Kaduna state, Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, that President Tinubu stood the risk of being booted out of office in the 2027 poll with votes from the Northern part of the country.
Ganduje, who spoke Tuesday while receiving the Tinubu Northern Youth Forum at the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja, maintained that the principle of power rotation between the North and South would not be altered.
The Kano-born politician referred to former president Muhammadu Buhari who served two terms in office to buttress the position that President Tinubu would equally enjoy such privilege in office.
“When a leader from the Northern part of this country was in office for 8 years, we advocated that the next President in our party should come from the south. And luckily enough, we worked very hard with the cooperation of Nigerians,” he said.
“Our President has come from the South and is going, insh Allah, for a second term, 2027. And then after that, it will be the turn of the northern part of this country.”
Ganduje, who also met with the Tinubu Young Generation Forum earlier in the day at the party secretariat, argued that President Tinubu is doing very well while at the helm since last year.
He described Tinubu as a reformer, visionary leader, who is focused on repositioning the country for sustainable growth and development.
“We are happy with his reforms because his reforms are absolutely necessary for the social and economic development of this country. There is no doubt so many things went wrong over a long period of time and it would require, there is no doubt it requires surgery before we can get it right,” he said.
“But we are happy that we have started seeing the outcome of the reforms, especially in the economic side and we believe this will continue to yield positive results so that the legacy and the renewed hope agenda will be achieved.”
