Salihu Lukman, the All Progressives Congress (APC) national vice-chairman, North-West, has said that the success recorded at the party’s zonal presidential campaign rallies is the signpost victory for Bola Tinubu, its flag bearer.

Mr Lukman, the immediate past director-general of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja while appreciating the party’s members and supporters in the zone.

“Kebbi APC presidential rally on Saturday, February 11, 2023, concluded this phase of the party’s presidential campaign rallies in all the seven states of the North-West.

“We want to thank all our people in the North-West for coming out in all our rallies in all the seven states to demonstrate support for our presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu,” he said.

Mr Lukman added that part of what must be acknowledged was the fact that across the seven states in the North-West, APC leaders and candidates had been able to reconcile with all party leaders and members.

He said they had resolved all the challenges arising from internal party contests leading to the emergence of candidates for the 2023 general elections.

Mr Lukman said the ability of the party’s leaders to reconcile and forge a united front in the North-West was primarily responsible for all the successful rallies in all the seven states.

He acknowledged the successful campaign rallies and activities of the party’s candidates across the seven states.

This, he said, was responsible for the increasing level of confidence of citizens in the party and its candidates and the large defection of political leaders from other opposition parties to the APC.

Mr Lukman added that the defectors included the Jigawa governorship candidate of the Labour Party and serving commissioners in Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government of Sokoto State.

“All these are signs of victory for the APC in the North-West for our presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in the presidential election of February 25, and all our candidates for National Assembly.

“We are very confident that with Allah’s blessing, all the seven states of the North-West, including Sokoto State, will be APC states as from May 29, 2023,” he said.

He reminded party members that in the end, election victory would be at the polling unit.

He expressed optimism that the APC North-West presidential rally had affirmed that the zone was APC and APC was North-West.

“We must remind Nigerians that the political history of Nigeria has shown that every presidential candidate that wins the votes of the North-West wins the presidency.

“In sha Allah, APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, will win the February 25, 2023, presidential election in North-West and will be returned eventually as president-elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” he said.

(NAN)