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The All Progressives Congress North Central Grassroot Mobilisation Movement for President Bola Tinubu, has warned governors of the party especially those in the northern part of the country to stop the campaign against the re-election of president Bola Tinubu as defeat of the president would affect them and many APC governors in subsequent elections.
Coordinator of the Movement, Alhaji Ibrahim Khaleel Aliyu, made the remarks in Minna yesterday while inaugurating the 25 local government arms of the organisation.
He said reports reaching the group indicated that some potential voters planned to dump president Tinubu in the presidential election, warning that if such plan was not neutralised, it would have negative impact on APC candidates in other elections.
Khaleel argued that a defeat of the president would give opposition parties and their candidates more strength to campaign and win.
“We should not allow this trending issue to continue,” Khaleel declared.
As a result, he charged all the local government and zonal coordinators to return to their wards and polling units and mobilise at least 500 votes from every polling unit for president Tinubu and other APC candidates in the January and the February 2027 elections
“This election is not about sitting at home, it is not about wearing flowing gowns and displaying bigmanism it is is about going to the people and convincing them on the need to vote APC from top to bottom,” he said.
He also warned some members of the party romancing with candidates of opposition political parties that, “they are being watched and monitored” and that at the appropriate time, “we will take action against them.”
Addressing the meeting, Special Adviser on Political Matters (Zone B) to Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago, Alhaji Yusuf Tagwai, described the forthcoming campaign as “a war, not with weapons but a war with voters cards.”