{"id":150224,"date":"2025-02-13T11:48:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T10:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/northern-leaders-reject-gandujes-call-for-tinubus-re-election"},"modified":"2025-02-16T00:12:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T23:12:56","slug":"northern-leaders-reject-gandujes-call-for-tinubus-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/northern-leaders-reject-gandujes-call-for-tinubus-re-election","title":{"rendered":"Northern leaders reject Ganduje\u2019s call for Tinubu\u2019s re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and other prominent northern figures have rejected a call by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, for the North to wait until 2031 before contesting the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>The northern leaders asserted that the region cannot be coerced into re-electing President Bola Tinubu in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Ganduje had made the remarks while receiving a delegation from the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Media Centre and the Tinubu Northern Youth Forum at the APC national secretariat in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that since a northern president\u2014Muhammadu Buhari\u2014had completed two terms, fairness dictated that Tinubu should also serve for eight years.<\/p>\n<p>However, the ACF and other political figures from the North rejected this stance.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to journalists, the National Publicity Secretary of the ACF, Prof. Tukur Muhammad-Baba, dismissed Ganduje\u2019s statement as a reflection of the presidency\u2019s \u201ccult-like\u201d nature, where total allegiance is expected.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that voters cannot be influenced by force.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe or she or party members cannot influence voters by force. So, what he said was an opinion, and it\u2019s up to the voters to endorse, reject, or modify it. In 2015, we were sold a dummy of anti-corruption. We were sold a dummy of many things, and people have realized that it wasn\u2019t true. Then, of course, the Renewed Hope came in 2023, and the hope is turning into a nightmare,\u201d Muhammad-Baba stated.<\/p>\n<p>Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, also cast doubt on Tinubu\u2019s chances, sharing a post on his verified X handle titled \u201c2027: South West, Tinubu\u2019s supporters playing with fire \u2013 Part 1.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post suggested that Tinubu\u2019s relationship with the North had significantly deteriorated less than two years into his tenure, warning that he could suffer a fate similar to former President Goodluck Jonathan, who lost re-election in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and other prominent northern figures have rejected a call by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, for the North to wait until 2031 before contesting the presidency. The northern leaders asserted that the region cannot be coerced into re-electing President Bola Tinubu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":150223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1276,1022,254,4863,945],"class_list":["post-150224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-acf","tag-ganduje","tag-nigeria","tag-northern-leaders","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Northern leaders reject Ganduje\u2019s call for Tinubu\u2019s re-election - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and other prominent northern figures have rejected a call by the National Chairman of ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/northern-leaders-reject-gandujes-call-for-tinubus-re-election\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Northern leaders reject Ganduje\u2019s call for Tinubu\u2019s re-election\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and other prominent northern figures have rejected a call by the National Chairman of ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/northern-leaders-reject-gandujes-call-for-tinubus-re-election\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-02-13T10:48:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-15T23:12:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/sm_1739434900.277054.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/northern-leaders-reject-gandujes-call-for-tinubus-re-election#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/northern-leaders-reject-gandujes-call-for-tinubus-re-election\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Northern leaders reject Ganduje\u2019s call for Tinubu\u2019s re-election\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-13T10:48:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-02-15T23:12:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/northern-leaders-reject-gandujes-call-for-tinubus-re-election\"},\"wordCount\":322,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/northern-leaders-reject-gandujes-call-for-tinubus-re-election#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/sm_1739434900.277054.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"ACF\",\"Ganduje\",\"Nigeria\",\"northern leaders\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/northern-leaders-reject-gandujes-call-for-tinubus-re-election#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/northern-leaders-reject-gandujes-call-for-tinubus-re-election\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/northern-leaders-reject-gandujes-call-for-tinubus-re-election\",\"name\":\"Northern leaders reject Ganduje\u2019s call for Tinubu\u2019s re-election - 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