Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, Hamisu Chidari, has stated that his State will support former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for president in 2023.
Chidari, while speaking at the inauguration of the Tinubu Support Group (TSG) and the state steering committees of the group in Abuja on Saturday, said Kano will give Tinubu votes at the presidential primary election of the All Progressives Congress, (APC).
According to the Speaker, the north-west is aware of the role the former Lagos governor played in ensuring that President Muhammadu Buhari was elected in 2015.
“My purpose is to kick-start the journey that will take us to the Villa by Gods grace with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the number one citizen of Nigeria, he said.
The lawmaker further said, In Kano, being the State with the highest number of delegates, we have already decided and already concluded; we are set to give him at least 98 percent of delegates in the primaries.
Not only that, we are set as usual to give him the highest number of votes, so that come May 29, 2023, we will be at the Eagle Square to swear him in as the President.
“All of us in the North-West region are aware of the role he played in taking our son, President Muhammadu Buhari, to the Villa. So, we are going to reward him; we are going to pay him back.
“So, I have assured him of victory. Almost all the delegates from the North-West states are going to vote for him in the next primary elections.
Although Tinubu has not declared his interest to run for president in 2023, it was learnt that his purported ambition is said to have deepened the crisis of the APC in the State.
