Former Zamfara Central Senator, Kabiru Marafa, has vowed to strip President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of one million votes in the 2027 presidential election.
Marafa, who dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC) after accusing Tinubu of a “use-and-dump” leadership style, made the declaration during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday.
“I’m going to assure you something today. I’m going to deduct one million out of Mr. President’s votes that he got in 2023. Mark my words. I’m going to do it. I would work for it and by the special grace of God, I’m going to win that.
“Now, whether somebody said that I’m paperweight, I’m a lightweight; whatever I’m, 2027 is going to determine who is a paperweight,” Marafa declared.
The former lawmaker, who served as Zamfara State Coordinator for the Tinubu/Shettima campaign during the 2023 elections, said widespread discontent had already united key political players in the state against the ruling party.
“And again, let me tell you. In 2023, just to tell the level at which our politics have come up today. Because of the heavy disenchantment of the people, all people, anybody that you can call substance in Zamfara State, we’re on one side.
“And there’s Dauda, who has never been in politics except in 2023, was able to secure victory against all of us. Four former governors, how many senators? How many members of the House of Representatives? This is the same type of sentiment that people canvassed at that time, that who’s Dauda? Dauda cannot do anything. Dauda is this, Dauda is that.”
He added that Tinubu had lost goodwill by failing to keep his promises of reform within the APC.
“Now, the only election that we’re able to win was that of Mr. President and courtesy of the message that we took to the people that Mr President promised that he was going to change the reward system of the APC.
“Because people were not happy with the tail end of Buhari’s government. He promised that he was going to eradicate the concept of monkey dey work, baboon dey chop. Only for him to entrench it, institutionalized it and it became the state policy of the APC,” Marafa said.
