APC chieftain predicts landslide victory for Tinubu in Kano

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Kano State, Rabi’u Bichi, has expressed optimism that President Bola Tinubu will secure a landslide victory in Kano in 2027.

Bichi, who is the Managing Director of the Hadejia Jama’are River Basin Development Authority, made the remark while speaking with newsmen on Friday.

“President Bola Tinubu will get a landslide victory in 2027 due to the unprecedented consolidation of the APC political structure in the state,” Bichi said.

He explained that the party’s major blocs — from the Ganduje legacy structure to the National Assembly caucus led by the Deputy Senate President, Barau Jibrin, and recent high-profile defectors from the PDP and NNPP — have all united behind Tinubu’s sole candidacy.

“Tinubu will win Kano by a landslide in 2027 because the political arithmetic that defined 2023 has been upended.

“That level of elite consensus was absent in 2023 and gives the APC unmatched reach across Kano’s 44 local government areas.

“The public fundraising of N50 million to offset half of the President’s nomination forms further demonstrates a mobilisation capacity the opposition cannot match,” he said.

Bichi, who was the 2023 APC campaign Director-General for Tinubu in Kano, said the President’s delivery on federal projects and appointments has realigned grassroots sentiment.

He added, “From the Kano-Maradi rail line to expanded irrigation under the Hadejia-Jama’are River Basin, and the inclusion of Kano indigenes in strategic federal roles, people see a President who keeps faith with the state.

“With Governor Yusuf’s defection bringing state and federal structures under one roof, Tinubu enters 2027 with both incumbency advantages and a merged political machine. In Kano’s electoral history, that combination has always produced a landslide.”

Recall that on Thursday, stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress in Kano State endorsed President Tinubu as the party’s sole presidential candidate for the 2027 general election.

The decision was reached at a meeting held at the Coronation Hall, Government House, Kano — the first of its kind since Governor Abba Yusuf’s defection.

Bichi moved the motion for Tinubu’s adoption.

It was seconded by a former Secretary to the State Government, Abdullahi Baffa Bichi.

Although Tinubu has already picked up his expression of interest and nomination forms for the APC ticket, the stakeholders demonstrated support by raising N50 million to offset 50 per cent of the N100 million cost.