A former senator and human rights activist, Sen. Shehu Sani, has expressed his commitment to the re-election of President Bola Tinubu and Gov. Uba Sani of Kaduna State in 2027.
Sani gave the commitment in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Sunday.
“The re-election of Tinubu and Gov. Sani in 2027 is of more priority to me than my own personal political interest in the next general elections.
“We are seriously working for the Kaduna people and the entire northern Nigeria to embrace the re-election project of Tinubu for a number of reasons,” he said.
Sani said that since the North had produced a president (Muhammadu Buhari) who spent eight years in office, it would be illogical, irrational and irresponsible for anyone to think of power returning to the north again in 2027.
“Again, President Bola Tinubu had supported former President Muhammadu Buhari to win.
“So it is only rational that the support given to Buhari by Tinubu and the people of the South-West then be reciprocated now,’ he said.
The former senator, therefore, urged the north to wait till 2031.
He noted that since the emergence of Tinubu’s government, a lot had happened, which wasn’t the case when a northerner was in the office.
“One, in the area of infrastructure development, a lot of projects that the last administration refused to do are now being given attention.
“In the area of appointments, northerners were appointed into key ministries; the minister of defence and the minister of state for defence are from the north.
“Minister of Foreign Affairs, Health, Transportation, Agriculture and Minister of State for Agriculture are all from the north.
“The Chief of defence Staff and the National Security Adviser, the Chief of Air Staff are all from the north and so what do we actually want?
“Our own was in power for eight years; he couldn’t address the insecurity problems in the north, couldn’t reactivate the Mambilla power project for eight years or complete Abuja-Kano road, Abuja-Lokoja, Abuja-Mina and Abuja-Keffi roads and so on,” he said.
“The dredging of River Niger was abandoned; the rail lines abandoned and even the Anchor Borrowers’ programme of the Central Bank of Nigeria that led to the loss of trillions of Naira was abandoned.
“If you look at all these, you know that this is not the time to call for the return of power to the north. Rather, it is the time for us to use those in power to achieve what we want so that in 2031, we can contest,” he said.
