President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has been urged to consolidate on the electoral gains he made from the North West by backing the zone to produce the Senate president in the 10th National Assembly.
The Support Group for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the North West, which made the call in a press statement signed by the youth leader for the APC North West, Hon. Abdulalmid Umar, said Tinubu would be building on the strong political base he had achieved during the last election in the North West by the gesture.
He said anything contrary would not be futuristic, and the race for another election should really start in earnest at the commencement of the new administration.
“If sidestepped, the zone which had returned the highest votes for the president-elect would be discouraged, and see no reason to work as hard or harder in the next election,” the group said.
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Hon. Umar who attested to the hard work put in to deliver huge votes for the president-elect in spite of formidable opponents in the zone said it would only be proper to compensate them with Senate presidency.
“The president-elect should be consolidating on the high votes he recorded in our zone so as to override attempts that both PDP and NNPP will make to muzzle APC.
“The pressure will be too much on our party and membership if we do not have a formidable force to withstand pressures from opposing parties who already have Kano and four of the six governors from the zone,” he said.
