N’West gave Tinubu highest votes, deserves Senate presidency – Group

The Support Group for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in the North-West has urged the President-elect to compensate the zone with the Senate President slot.

The group, in a statement signed by the youth leader for the All Progressives Congress North-West, Abdulalmid Umar, said such consideration would build on the electoral gains and the strong political base he made from the North-West, thereby urging Tinubu never to compromise it.

He said anything contrary would not be futuristic, and the race for another election should really start in earnest at the commencement of the new administration.

He said if sidestepped, the zone, which delivered the greatest number of votes for the President-elect, would be discouraged, and see no reason to work as hard or harder in the next election.

He also added that the group might be tempted to go for a northern candidate in the next election, if one is fielded.

Umar said given the hard work put in to deliver huge votes for the President-elect in spite of formidable opponents in the zone from other political parties, it would only be proper to compensate them with zoning the Senate number one job to the North-West zone.

“The President-elect should be consolidating on the high number of votes he recorded in our zone so as to override attempts that both the Peoples Democratic Party and the New Nigeria People’s Party will make to muzzle the APC.

“The pressure will be too much on our party and membership if we do not have a formidable force to withstand pressure from opposing parties who already have Kano governorship and four out of the six governors from the zone.

“To retain our relevance in the zone, push ahead to gain more grounds, as well as consolidate on our electoral performance, the zone, more than any other, should have the Senate President,” he added.

Umar said the request was further supported by the fact that “we have an eminently qualified candidate who fits the bill in the person of a three-time senator who was once in the House of Representatives, in the person of Senator Barau Jubrin.”