The All Progressives Congress (APC) will retain the presidency, the six North-west states and reclaim Sokoto state from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the party’s vice-chairman, North-west zone, Alhaji Salihu Mohammed Lukman, has said.
Addressing the media after meeting with the APC state chairmen in the zone on Friday, Salihu said the party had put in place every preparation to flag-off its campaigns for the presidential, gubernatorial, National Assembly and state assemblies’ candidates in the zone.
Lukman, who led the state party chairmen to the North-west zone presidential campaign secretariat in Kaduna, said, “This is one of our regular meetings. We met with four party chairmen from the zone. The objective of the meeting is to begin to plan for the campaign in the North-west at the presidential and other levels.
“We recall that the North-west zone remains the backbone of our party. We took a report of our readiness at each state and reviewed the development at the national level and we are optimistic that APC will sweep the polls in the North-west zone. We are taking every step to organise ourselves and pull the votes as usual. We don’t have any fear to succeed, to pull the votes and APC will win at the center and all our North-west states including even Sokoto state.
“The APC presidential campaign in the North-west zone will commence from Kaduna on December 12, we have agreed to make some recommendations from the presidential campaign council on what needs to be done. Stakeholders’ meeting of the zone should properly plan on the take-off of the campaign in the North-west. We have secured a presidential campaign office for the zone along Independence Way, it should be ready within one week,” he said.
