The Director General of the Tinubu Support Group, TSG, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, has declared that northerners will support and re-elect President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 general elections.
Yakassai made the declaration in Akure, the Ondo State capital, during the inauguration of the state chapter of the Tinubu Support Group and the decoration of Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa as Grand Patron.
According to him, the North has a moral obligation to reciprocate Tinubu’s past political support.
He said: “If Asiwaju supported Buhari in 2017 and repeated the same feat with success in 2023, it has become a moral imperative for all of us northerners to repeat the same courtesy and work towards the re-election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. It is an honour for us to be morally conscious, morally right, and support his second-term bid.”
Yakassai added that northerners are ready to openly mobilise for Tinubu, noting that dissenting northern voices are insignificant.
He said: “If you hear a few voices claiming to oppose President Tinubu, they are mostly people fingered in corruption, fraud, or those who have not found space in government. They are mere grumblers with no tangible impact. Try to win them over, but if they refuse, leave them—they represent an infinitesimal fraction of the electorate.”
Yakassai reiterated that the TSG remains the umbrella body for all support groups mobilising for the Tinubu administration.
“TSG has served and will continue to serve as the coordinating platform for all groups working tirelessly to promote the Tinubu presidency and secure his re-election,” he said.
