Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno says that the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the presidential election in the state is certain.

Mr Zulum, who stated this on Sunday in Maiduguri while addressing APC members at a stakeholders’ meeting, urged members to work for a landslide, with a big margin.

The state chapter of the APC Presidential Campaign Council Stakeholders’ Relations Directorate organised the meeting.

Mr Zulum, represented by the Commissioner of Transport, Abubakar Tijjani, said with Kashim Shettima, a Borno indigene, in the race as the vice-presidential candidate, the people of the state would not disappoint him.

He expressed confidence that the state’s people would show their support with the crowd that would grace the forthcoming presidential campaign in Maiduguri.

“We have seen the crowd in the states visited by the Tinubu/Shettima campaign team. We need to make that of Borno spectacular so as to pass a message,” he said.

Also speaking, the state APC chairman, Ali Dalori, represented by Mohammed Mustapha, said Borno, which delivered 96 per cent of its votes to the party in the last election, remained committed to setting a new record.

He said the party needed to intensify its door-to-door campaign and voter education for people to collect their voter cards to enable more people to vote in the state.

In his welcome address, the leader of the stakeholders, Ahmed Aishemi, said the meeting was organised to energise the party to do more in mobilising the people of the state.

Mr Aishemi said Borno had never had it so good under the APC-led government of President Muhammadu Buhari, as it had brought relative peace and development to the state.

He also said that aside from the fact that the people of the state were well-represented in the Buhari-led administration, the nomination of Mr Shettima as the vice-presidential candidate remained another big plus that must be reciprocated with massive votes by the citizens.

(NAN)