From Victor Edozie, in Port Harcourt
The Coordinator of Arewa Consultative Forum in the South and the leader of northern community in Rivers State, Alhaji Musa Saidu has called on the leadership of All Progressives Congress, APC, in the south south region to integrate northerners who are leaders of the party in the region in its activities.
Saidu in a statement in Port Harcourt said many of the northerners who have supported the party in the past are left behind in the scheme of things.
Saidu said many northerners like him who are registered voters have been voting in their various communities in the south south region where they reside and do business but regretted that they have not been carried along by the party.
Saidu said the aggregation of the entire population of the northern community in the region is very large and should not be ignored in the political activities of the party.
He said : “As a leader of Arewa in the south and based in Port Harcourt, APC leadership in the south south region should know that we have massive northern votes in the region. So they should ensure we are integrated in APC programmes in the region.
“We are registered to vote in the south south. I am registered at St Mary’s ward 5 in Port Harcourt and I have been voting there.
“We are firmly in support of the re-election of President Bola Tinubu. We have been the original supporters of Tinubu here. The votes we have as northerners in the south are very large.
“There is no alternative to Tinubu for 2027. We are firmly with him.”
Saidu also urged President Tinubu to accommodate his original supporters in his empowerment programmes and appointments , stressing that many who mobilized for his election in his first term had not been empowered.
