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Abdullahi Ganduje, the former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has allayed fears that Nigerians from the Northern part of the country will not vote for President Bola Tinubu <\/a>in the 2027 presidential election.<\/span><\/p>\n Ganduje said those who believe that Tinubu <\/a>will not secure votes for his re-election from the region are making a big mistake.<\/span><\/p>\n The former governor of Kano State said this while speaking on Friday in Abuja when a delegation of the Northern Nigeria Youth Leaders from the 19 states of the North, paid him a courtesy visit to decorate him as the patron of the Forum.<\/span><\/p>\n According to the former APC national chairman, no better candidate from the southern part of Nigeria can steer the affairs of the nation beyond 2027 than Tinubu.<\/span><\/p>\n He also described Nigeria as being lucky to have the first President \u2013 who is a real politician in Tinubu.<\/span><\/p>\n His words, \u201cPertaining to the next election in 2027, those who are nursing or thinking otherwise that the North will vote for another candidate other than Asiwaju are making a big mistake. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThis is the first time Nigeria as a nation is lucky to have a politician as President. His constituency is politics, his upbringing is politics because he believes in the unity of this country. In fact, he struggled, he was even in exile for democracy to survive in Nigeria. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cSo there is no better person to be elected in 2027 than Bola Ahmed Tinubu,\u201d Ganduje said.<\/span><\/p>\n He further revealed that there was an agreement before the emergence of late Muhammadu Buhari as president that after his tenure, a southerner would govern the nation.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAsiwaju has only been there for less than four years now and we have seen the measures and reforms that he undertook. The reforms that he introduced to improve the social and economic development of this country.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n On some of the reforms of the president administration, Ganduje said all the candidates who contested with Tinubu <\/a>in 2023 promised to remove fuel subsidy among other pledgedo<\/span><\/p>\n Also assuring the Northern Nigeria Youth Leaders of his support for the organisation, the former governor appreciated them for their boldness not only to mobilise votes for the re-election of Asiwaju but also to raise money to purchase his nomination forms. <\/span><\/p>\n In his address, the national leader of the group, Murtala Gamji described Ganduje as a role model.<\/span><\/p>\n