2023: We’ll Back Tinubu for President- Kano Speaker Says

• Kano speaker to back Tinubu for president, says he supported Buhari
• Tinubu has not declared his interest to run for president in 2023.

Ekohotblog reports that the speaker of Kano’s house of assembly, Hamisu Chidari, has stated that his state will back Bola Tinubu, the former governor of Lagos state, for president in 2023.

Chidari stated during the launch of the Tinubu Support Organisation (TSG) and the state steering committees of the group in Abuja on Saturday that Kano will provide Tinubu votes in the All Progressives Congress presidential primary poll (APC).

The north-west, according to the speaker, is aware of the role the former Lagos governor played in assuring President Muhammadu Buhari’s election in 2015.

“My purpose is to kick-start the journey that will take us to the Villa by God’s grace with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the number one citizen of Nigeria,” he said.

“In Kano, being the state with the highest number of delegates, we have already decided and already concluded; we are set to give him at least 98 per cent of delegates in the primaries.

“Not only that, we are set as usual to give him the highest number of votes so that come May 29, 2023, we will be at the Eagle Square to swear him in as the President.

“All of us in the north-west are aware of the role he played in taking our son, President Muhammadu Buhari, to the Villa. So, we are going to reward him; we are going to pay him back.

“So, I have assured him of victory. Almost all the delegates from the north-west states are going to vote for him in the next primary elections.”

Tinubu has not declared his interest to run for president in 2023.