The Progressive Foundation Movement (PFM), a key support platform within the All Progressives Congress (APC), has praised Abubakar Bichi, member representing Bichi Federal Constituency and Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation, for his role in uniting party leaders in Kano behind President Bola Tinubu’s 2027 re-election campaign.
The PFM, made up of figures from the legacy parties that merged to form the APC, described Bichi as a dependable ally of the president ahead of the next general election.
On Thursday, APC stakeholders from Kano gathered in Abuja to openly reaffirm their loyalty to Tinubu’s second-term ambition.
The meeting drew heavy weight figures including former Kano governor and immediate past APC National Chairman, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, and Deputy Senate President, Senator Barau Jibrin.
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Others in attendance were Minister of State for Housing Alhaji Abdullahi Atta, Senator Kawu Sumaila, former governor Senator Kabiru Gaya, Hon. Mohammed Garba, Sulaiman Bichi, and several serving and former lawmakers as well as commissioners.
In a statement issued Friday in Abuja, the group’s National Coordinator, Olaniyi Olawale, said Bichi’s commitment to fostering unity within the Kano APC and rallying support for Tinubu deserved recognition.
Olawale noted that during the Abuja gathering, Bichi “passionately and eloquently highlighted all the key projects the current administration has executed in the North-West and in Kano in particular.”
According to Bichi, President Tinubu is scheduled to visit Kano in the coming months to launch the state’s Light Rail project.
“In 2023 election, we came up with 600,000 votes for Mr. President. We may also note that the President has done extremely well in Kano state in terms of critical projects such as roads, among others.
“The Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano road is almost completed. Kano-Maiduguri sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 almost completed. The Kano-Katsina project is almost completed. And in the next one to two months Mr. President will come to Kano to lay the foundation for the Light Rail project in Kano State. That project will cost more than one billion US dollars and, of course, is going to be one of the most important projects in Northern Nigeria.
“So for someone to say, Mr. President is not interested in the North or in Kano State is all politics. And Kano State in 2027 will come all out and vote for the President and APC Governor Isha Allah as well as our three central districts and members of the House of Representatives of the states,” the lawmaker stated at the meeting.”
The PFM further lauded Bichi for his grassroots influence in Kano, which it said has strengthened Tinubu’s support base in Nigeria’s most populous state.
“We are highly impressed by the impact, Hon. Abubakar Kabiru Abubakar Bichi’s grassroots mobilization has continued to have on the people of his constituency and Kano State at large. No wonder, he was able to convince critical stakeholders at the just concluded meeting in Abuja, where the entire leaders of APC in Kano State declared their continued support for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s second term aspiration.
“We acknowledge and commend your unflinching passion and commitment at promoting and rallying support for Mr. President ahead of the 2027 general elections.”
