Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has reiterated that President Bola Tinubu will serve his full two terms in office, spanning from 2023 to 2031.
Mr. Ganduje’s statement comes in response to a warning from former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, who suggested that President Tinubu risks losing his re-election bid in 2027 due to dwindling support from the North.
But while speaking on Tuesday at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja when he received the Tinubu Northern Youth Forum, Ganduje debunked concerns over power shifts, stressing that the established principle of North-South power rotation would remain intact.
He cited former President Muhammadu Buhari’s two-term tenure as a precedent, noting that Tinubu would enjoy the same privilege.
“When a leader from the Northern part of this country was in office for 8 years, we advocated that the next President in our party should come from the south. And luckily enough, we worked very hard with the cooperation of Nigerians,” he said.
“Our President has come from the South and is going, In Sha Allah, for a second term, 2027. And then after that, it will be the turn of the northern part of this country.”
Ganduje, who also met with the Tinubu Young Generation Forum earlier in the day at the party secretariat, argued that President Tinubu is doing very well while at the helm since last year.
He described Tinubu as a reformer, visionary leader, who is focused on repositioning the country for sustainable growth and development.
“We are happy with his reforms because his reforms are absolutely necessary for the social and economic development of this country. There is no doubt so many things went wrong over a long period of time and it would require, there is no doubt it requires surgery before we can get it right,” he said.
“But we are happy that we have started seeing the outcome of the reforms, especially in the economic side and we believe this will continue to yield positive results so that the legacy and the renewed hope agenda will be achieved.”
