2027: North Angry With Tinubu; We Won’t Vote For Him Again- Yerima

The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, AYCF, has disclosed the plan by northerners to abandon President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the next presidential election.

The group’s president, Shettima Yerima  theold the Vanguard that region expected a better deal from President Tinubu after it experienced a raw deal under the Buhari administration, saying that was why northerners made the decision to vote for the incumbent massively.

Yerima said President Tinubu has since abandon the region after he came to power in 2023, stressing that the region has now decided to punish Tinubu for the perceived  treachery against northerners by ensuring that his re-election in 2027 is made totally impossible.

He explained that a broad spectrum of the people of the region are grossly disappointed with the president because “there are certain regrets by the northern region,” that they helped Tinubu in his ascension to power last year.

According to him, the region is very disappointed because their expectations had not been met by the president, adding that Tinubu policies are believed to be against the region.

Yerima stated that Nigerians have suffered greatly under the administration, saying however that nobody expected a ‘miracle’ from the president because of the level of problems he met on ground.

Yerima speak in part, “In some quarters, there are certain regrets by the northern region. Don’t forget the eight years of Buhari’s administration brought nothing to the north. “So, the expectation was so high that Tinubu knew where the problem lay, and someone like me who had worked with him and taken him as a role model, l believed that he knew so much about the problems of this country and would approach the issues not as a military man but as a democrat and would be able to proffer solutions to them.

“But the people are disappointed because they are not getting what they expected of him.

“In fairness to him, the situation was very bad. Everybody knew that whoever succeeded Buhari would go through a very rough path to succeed. We never expected that after eight years of rubbish, Tinubu would perform a miracle in two years. Yes, there are expected reforms, and without kids, we may not get the result immediately, but what is expected from the government is that whatever policy you are bringing, there must be a cushioning effect so that people would not unnecessarily suffer.

“People have suffered enough. If he had done it that way, nobody would have accused Tinubu of ill-intention to balkanise the country or govern against any section of the country. He is very exposed and not a local champion. But sometimes, it is one thing to come up with a policy, but the implementation might not go well with the people.

“The North is angry with the government, but the government still has another opportunity in less than two years to turn things around. So, some of us are not in a hurry to conclude that Tinubu might not be of any good to the north. We know the journey is rough. Let us give him some benefit of the doubt and encourage him,” the Arewa youth leader said.