2027: Atiku, Obi Have Nothing To Offer, Yari Insists

Ahead of the 2027 general election, Director-General of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council (APC-PCC), Senator Abdulaziz Yari has said the opponents of President Bola Tinubu, who include the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar and that of the Nigeria Democratic Congress(NDC), Peter Obi, have nothing to offer Nigerians.

Speaking at the party’s presidential campaign rally in Dutse, the Jigawa State capital, on Tuesday, Yari said none of the candidates contesting against Tinubu has shown what they would do that the president is doing for the country.

He challenged Atiku and other presidential candidates from the North to show even a councillor they have supported in the south, unlike Tinubu, who supported people from the region other than his own to become president and other key positions.

The former Zamfara state governor described Tinubu as a true democrat who laid the foundation and struggled for Nigeria’s democracy, which his opponents are now enjoying.

“The foundation you laid for democracy in Nigeria, especially in the north, among those our opponents, none of them has 0.1% over a hundred. You show you are a real democrat; you have suffered for this democracy to be sustained, you have interfaced with the enemies of democracy, and you have won against them. Today, they are enjoying your sweat.

“These, your opponents, they don’t have anything to offer more than what you are doing for Nigeria, more than what you have done when you became a governor and what you have done for this part of this country.

“I will not repeat myself; I have said time and time again: those that you supported in Northern Nigeria, the foundation you laid, supporting 1, 2, 3 in Northern Nigeria; I challenge those that are calling themselves core northerners, in the south, whether they have supported a councillor to win an election or supported a local government chairman to win an election, or supported any governor to win an election.

“Our candidate, our president, supported them and supported a person who became a president for the first time and the second time without choosing himself…,” he said.

Yari also dismissed claims that the northern region is against President Tinubu and that he would not be welcomed there, saying the campaign rallies in Kaduna and Jigawa alone have put that to rest.

“Your Excellency, Mr President, these are your people, men and women and youths. This is Northwest, where our opponents are campaigning that you are not going to be welcomed in Northern Nigeria.

“Mr President, Almighty Allah will look at your heart, and by God’s grace, this journey is successful. Let me say something here. I asked the president when we were in Saudi Arabia: “Mr President, sir, I want you to pray for me.”

“The president asked me, ‘ Which prayer do you want? I said, sir, this responsibility for all our team to be successful. He said, Abdulaziz, you are already successful because Allah is with us and we are here to pray,” the APC-PCC DG added.