2027: North Central Youths Target 5m Votes For Tinubu

Ahead of the 2027 general elections, the North Central Youths Support Group for Tinubu has inaugurated its national and state executives, vowing to mobilise massive support to return President Bola Tinubu to office.

The inauguration was held in Abuja on Saturday, drawing youth leaders and political stakeholders from the six states in the region and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

At the event, the director-general of the group, Comrade Abdullahi Muhammed Jemil, said the organisation was targeting five million votes for the President in the next election.

“We promise five million votes within our power to deliver our President. We need your guidance, advice and protection,” Jemil declared.

He said the group would engage communities, institutions and markets across the region to promote Tinubu’s candidacy, describing the President as the best option for Nigeria.

Jemil urged state coordinators, women leaders, and national executives to immediately activate state, local government, and ward chapters and intensify voter registration efforts.

“Getting voters’ cards is our machinery to deliver our President. We are committed to working across 1,432 wards in the North Central and the FCT to ensure President Tinubu’s re-election by the special grace of God,” he said.

Also speaking, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the group, Hon. Hassan Omale Atayoma, called for patience with the President’s economic policies, despite the current hardships Nigerians are facing.

“People say they are suffering. Of course. Even when you farm, you must work before you eat. But at the end of the day, there will be food,” Atayoma, who currently serves as Executive Director (Agricultural Services), Lower Benue River Basin Development Authority, said.

The former Federal Lawmaker from Kogi state argued that Tinubu’s policies would yield long-term benefits, noting that future generations would appreciate the reforms being implemented.

Atayoma said the group resolved to back Tinubu’s re-election based on what he described as the President’s record of appointments and infrastructural provisions for the region.

“We know what he has done for us. He has appointed our men and women to very critical positions. We hope that if he returns, there will be more appointments and more development for our youths,” he added.

On his part, the National Youth Ambassador for the Forum, Prince Ugbede Odoh, charged the youth across the region to take advantage of the ongoing Continuous Voters Registration exercise and get their cards, which he described as their power.

Odoh lamented that the votes for President Tinubu in the region were scarcely over 4 million, despite over 12 million people registering to vote in the 2023 elections.

He tasked the group with going all out to sensitise the people of the region to not only register to vote but also come out en masse to vote massively for President Tinubu in 2027.

In his remarks, the National Director of the Tinubu Support Group, Umar Tanko Yankasi, described the North Central as one of Nigeria’s most resource-rich regions, citing Kogi State as an example.

Represented by Dr Hassan Sadiq, Yankasi said Nigeria needed a leader with strong economic knowledge rather than mere political experience, arguing that Tinubu had taken bold economic decisions that previous leaders had avoided.

“These are economic ideas that countries like America, Germany and the UK followed before getting to where they are today,” Yankasi said.

He urged the youth group to establish a strong presence across the seven states of the North Central, stressing that effective ward-level mobilisation would be key to delivering electoral victory in 2027.

“With over 1,400 wards, you are at the core of election strategy. If you organise properly in these wards, Asiwaju will win the North Central,” he said.

The Legal Adviser of the group, Barr. Isah Iliyasu, while charging the youth to activate their youthfulness in fulfilling the promise of mobilising over 5 million votes for Tinubu in 2027, also urged them to go about it diligently, saying the coming election was a fight that must be fought with diplomacy, lobbying and subtle canvassing, devoid of aggression and crises.