By Divine Sam
Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani, has urged opposition parties to stop concentrating on the activities of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on social media and instead engage Nigerians directly through campaign rallies, town hall meetings and grassroots mobilisation ahead of the 2027 general elections.
Speaking during an interview with TVC, a Lagos-based television station, on Sunday night, the governor argued that political parties seeking electoral victories must take their messages to the people rather than spend their time reacting to the campaigns and activities of their opponents.
According to him, the only opposition party he has noticed making serious efforts to reach voters through town hall meetings, apart from the APC, is probably the Allied Peoples Movement (APM). He said he had seen the party engaging people across different locations, unlike the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC).
The governor maintained that opposition parties cannot build sufficient public support by responding to the ruling party’s activities instead of presenting their own programmes and engaging voters directly.
He said, “Instead of canvassing for the people’s support, the opposition is using digital technology like Artificial Intelligence and doctoring pictures and posting on social media to disparage APC.”
Uba Sani further argued that the APC was focused on meeting Nigerians and discussing its achievements, adding that whether opposition parties decided to unite or remain divided would not distract the ruling party from its political objectives.
On the APC’s expectations for the 2027 presidential election, the governor disclosed that the party’s National Chairman, Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, had expressed confidence that the North would deliver 70 per cent of its votes to President Bola Tinubu. He said Kaduna State was prepared to surpass that target.
The governor stressed that the APC would consider it a failure if any presidential candidate secured as much as 25 per cent of the votes in Kaduna State.
Defending the Tinubu administration’s performance, Uba Sani listed several projects and interventions he said had been initiated or advanced in Kaduna State over the past three and a half years. He maintained that residents were witnessing development and receiving support through the federal government’s initiatives.
He also commended President Tinubu for handing over the Ahmadu Bello Stadium to the Kaduna State Government, promising that the facility would be reconstructed into a modern stadium with a 33,000-seat capacity and standards suitable for FIFA-approved football events.
On road infrastructure, the governor said N178 billion had been released for the reconstruction of the 123-kilometre Kaduna–Birnin Gwari Road, a project he described as having been abandoned for more than four decades.
He also expressed appreciation to the President for the ongoing reconstruction of the Zaria–Soba–Kambuwa Road and the proposed Kaduna metropolitan light rail project, which he described as the second of its kind in the country.
According to Uba Sani, $865 million has been approved for the rail project, while China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC), the contractor handling the project, has received $300 million in mobilisation funds.
The governor further highlighted developments in the education sector, saying Kaduna State now has four federal universities. These include the upgraded Federal University of Education, Zaria; the Federal University of Applied Sciences, Kachia; the proposed Shehu Musa Yar’adua University of Petroleum Studies, Kaduna; and the Federal University of Technology following the conversion of Kaduna Polytechnic.
Uba Sani expressed confidence that the projects and interventions would strengthen public support for the President, urging residents of Kaduna State to demonstrate their appreciation by voting overwhelmingly for Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election.
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