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Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Media and Public Communications,
Sunday Dare, said Tinubu went to Kaduna amid claims that the North hated him
and that the All Progressives Congress, APC, would not vote for him in 2027.
The President had traveled to Kaduna on a one-day working
visit where he attended a wedding ceremony and visited the widow of the late
former President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha, in her residence.
However, Dare said Tinubu stepped into Kaduna despite it
being the spiritual base of the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, and the
political launch pad of Buhari.
A lengthy article he posted on X reads partly:
“This is the city that birthed the famed Kaduna Mafia, a
loose but powerful network of northern technocrats, politicians, military
brass, and businessmen who quietly shaped policy and leadership recruitment in
Nigeria, while also defending northern interests across decades.
“Kaduna is also the city of the Sardauna, Sir Ahmadu Bello,
and his contemporaries: Ali Akilu, Hassan Katsina, R. B. Dikko, and later, the
erudite historian Bala Usman. It is the spiritual base of the Arewa
Consultative Forum (ACF) and the political launch pad of late President
Muhammadu Buhari, whose reach across the North and indeed Nigeria was unmatched
in modern times.
“Time and again, Kaduna has been the place to which the
North retreats to recalibrate and relaunch, whether during the military era
when key decisions were hatched in smoky rooms, or in the democratic
dispensation when alignments and re-alignments found their root. From crises
resolved within its walls to alliances born in its corridors, Kaduna’s pedigree
as the lodestar of northern politics remains unchallenged.
“It was into this charged political environment, months
after opponents had fanned narratives of hostility to him, that President Bola
Ahmed Tinubu chose to walk boldly. Whispers of ‘a no-go area’ hung in the air:
the opposition had spread a conspiratorial message that the North ‘hated’
Tinubu and the APC support base would abandon him in future elections. But the
President, true to his character, came unafraid, carrying with him the fruits
of loyalty to old friendships and the evidence of sound policies beginning to
touch lives.”
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