The Director-Basic of the Tinubu Assist Group (TSG), Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, has mentioned that northerners will help President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid within the 2027 common elections.
Yakasai made the assertion on Thursday in Akure through the inauguration of the Ondo State chapter of the Tinubu Assist Group, the place Governor Fortunate Aiyedatiwa was adorned because the group’s Grand Patron.
He defined that the North owed President Tinubu ethical help due to his political alliance with the area in previous elections.
“If Asiwaju supported Buhari in 2017 and repeated the identical feat with success in 2023, it has turn out to be an ethical crucial for all of us northerners to reciprocate. It’s an honour for us to be morally aware, morally proper, and help his second-term bid,” Yakasai mentioned.
He additionally dismissed criticisms of President Tinubu from some northern figures, calling them insignificant.
“In case you hear a couple of voices claiming to oppose President Tinubu, they’re principally folks fingered in corruption, fraud, or those that haven’t discovered area in authorities. They symbolize an infinitesimal fraction of the citizens,” he mentioned.
Yakasai added that the Tinubu Assist Group stays the umbrella physique coordinating all pro-Tinubu actions nationwide.
“TSG has served and can proceed to function the coordinating platform for all teams working to advertise the Tinubu presidency and safe his re-election,” he famous.
The TSG Director-Basic in Ondo State, Prince Ademola Adegoroye, referred to as on residents and political teams to rally behind the Tinubu administration.
Adegoroye, a former Minister of Transport, mentioned Ondo State had gained a number of federal tasks beneath President Tinubu’s management.
He talked about tasks such because the Akure–Ado Highway, Ore–Akure Highway, Lagos–Calabar Superhighway, Ilesha–Benin Highway by way of Owo and Ose LGAs, Ekiti–Akoko Highway, FUTA Instructing Hospital, and the Faculty of Aviation.
He added that these tasks, together with Governor Aiyedatiwa’s achievements, would kind a powerful marketing campaign base for 2027.
Responding, Governor Aiyedatiwa praised the group, describing its members as “movers and shakers of Ondo politics.”
He mentioned their participation in TSG would make mobilising help for the President’s re-election simpler and promised that Ondo State would play a serious function in guaranteeing continuity for the Tinubu administration.
