2027: Yari, Ganduje lead APC delegation to Northern Muslim clerics

By Umar Idris Shuaibu

Ahead of the 2027 general elections, Director-General of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Abdul’aziz Yari, has led a delegation of senior party leaders on consultations with Muslim clerics and religious leaders across four northern states.

The consultations took the delegation to Plateau, Bauchi, Kaduna and Kano states, where the APC leaders met Islamic scholars and representatives of major Muslim movements, including Izala, Tijjaniyya, Jama’atu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa Iqamatis Sunnah (JIBWIS) and Qadiriyya.

Yari, a former governor of Zamfara State, was accompanied by former Kano State governor and immediate past national chairman of APC, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje; former Kebbi State governor, Senator Adamu Aliero; Senator Nasiru Sani Zangon Daura; APC National Secretary, Senator Ajibola Bashiru; and former Borno State governor, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff.

Others on the delegation were Hon. James Abiodun Faleke and former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ahmed Idris Wase.

The delegation said the consultations were aimed at engaging faith-based stakeholders on national issues and strengthening dialogue with religious leaders ahead of the 2027 elections.

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The exercise began in Jos, Plateau State, where Yari and his team met Sheikh Sani Yahaya Jingir, Chairman of the Council of Ulama of JIBWIS.

The delegation subsequently travelled to Bauchi, where it met Sheikh Ibrahim Dahiru Bauchi, Khalifa of the Sheikh Dahiru Usman Bauchi Zawiya.

Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi prayed for President Bola Tinubu and urged the government to sustain dialogue with religious leaders and communities beyond election periods.

He stressed the importance of making engagement between government and religious communities continuous rather than seasonal.

In Kaduna, Yari held discussions with Sheikh Abdullahi Bala Lau, National Chairman of the Kaduna faction of JIBWIS, on issues including insecurity, economic hardship and the need to sustain mutual trust among communities of different ethnic and religious backgrounds.

Bala Lau commended Yari for reaching out to the religious community but urged political leaders at all levels to listen more closely to the concerns of the people and communicate with them with sincerity.

The delegation concluded the consultations in Kano, where Yari met the leader of the Qadiriyya movement, Sheikh Qaribullahi Nasiru Kabara.

Kabara offered prayers for peace and stability in Nigeria and for the success of the consultations, while urging the delegation to take the message of unity to communities across the country.

The meetings also provided an opportunity for the APC delegation to hear concerns from religious leaders on security, economic hardship, national cohesion and relations between government and communities.