The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council has said that farmers across the 36 states of the federation have set in motion, modalities to mobilse millions of voters for the APC presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Secretary of Agriculture and Commodity of the council, Retson Tedheke, who is also the national convener of Asiwaju’s Farmers Forum and national coordinator of Nigerian Farmers Group and Cooperative Society (NFGCS) disclosed this yesterday during an interactive session with some journalists in Abuja ahead of its official inauguration on Monday.
Speaking during the session, Retson displayed a diary containing names and contacts of eleven thousand registered farmers under the Asiwaju Farmers Forum from the six geo-political zones in the country, which according to him will serve as lead mobilisers in their various states, zones, local government, and wards.
He explained that the lead mobilisers were expected “to mobilise at least twenty thousand farmers in each of 774 local government areas across the country, bringing the figure to 15 million farmers”
While expressing confidence that things were going to be done differently under Tinubu’s administration, Retson stressed that over the years, despite the contributions of farmers to the electoral value of the political class, they have not been fully appreciated “even when their votes exceed that of industrial workers or urban middle classes and even the political class”.
“The rural/semi-urban communities contributed largely to the ballot during every election and the majority of those residing in these areas across the country are predominantly farmers.”
“If elections are about numbers, democratic politics is about stitching together a majority. So, the larger a group, the bigger its vote bank and greater its electoral clout. This is the value we (farmers across the country) are bringing to the table for the Tinubu
