The North-Central All Progressives Congress, APC, Discussion board has endorsed a former governor of Nasarawa State, Alhaji Tanko Al-Makura, for the place of Nationwide Chairman of the occasion.
A press release launched in Abuja on Sunday by the Chairman of the Discussion board, Alhaji Saleh Zazzaga, mentioned the endorsement adopted in depth consultations amongst APC stakeholders within the North-Central.
Within the assertion titled, ‘Why Al-Makura deserves to be APC Nationwide Chairman’, the Discussion board famous that Al-Makura is from the North-Central, notably Nasarawa State, the place the eliminated former nationwide chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, hails from.
The Discussion board additional noticed that Al-Makura is from the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) bloc which is a part of the three legacy events that merged to forma the APC. It famous that among the many three legacy events – the Motion Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and the All Nigeria Peoples Social gathering (ANPP) – the CPC bloc is the one one which has not held the APC chairmanship place.
“Senator Tanko Al-Makura was a two-term Governor whose clout and expertise are pluses and each former and sitting governors will see him as one among their very own. He was a former Senator who was seen as half and parcel of legislature. He was among the many chairmanship aspirants who accepted with out grudges to the consensus choice that threw up Abdullahi Adamu as Nationwide Chairman through the APC Nationwide Conference in 2022.
“His loyalty to APC and Mr. President just isn’t unsure,” the assertion mentioned.
Additional stating causes for endorsing Al-Makura for the place of APC Nationwide Chairman, the Discussion board identified that “he has discharged crucial occasion assignments within the nation that gave him first hand concepts and intrinsic data of the occasion nationally”.
The occasion assignments, in keeping with the assertion, embrace Chairman, Ekiti State APC Main Election Committee that produced former Governor Kayode Fayemi in 2018.
He additionally served because the Chairman of the North-East Zone Reconciliation Committee in 2018, and equally as a member of the Baba Bisi Akande Reconciliation Committee in 2020.
“Has a really wealthy expertise and data of political actions as he was Youth Chief (Plateau State) in Nationwide Social gathering of Nigeria (NPN) – 1979; State Secretary (Plateau State) in Nationwide Republican Conference– 1989; founding member of the Peoples Democratic Social gathering (PDP) – 1999; Governor on the platform of the CPC – 2011; pioneer member and signatory to the merger that discovered APC – 2013 and APC Senator – 2019,” the assertion added.
The North-Central APC Discussion board additional famous that Al-Makura was among the many CPC bloc stakeholders who stood by the APC and President Bola Tinubu when some members wished to tug out of the occasion and be part of the opposition coalition, earlier in 2025.
“He’s a bridge builder and an advocate of inclusivity as he relates with the incapacity group that has over 20 million folks as he’s additionally an individual dwelling with incapacity,” the Discussion board mentioned.
The endorsement of Al-Makura happened 24 hours after the North-Central APC Discussion board launched an announcement on Saturday to demand the return of the place of Nationwide Chairman to the area.
Going by the subsisting zoning association within the APC, the North-Central is supposed to supply the Nationwide Chairman of the ruling occasion.
Abdullahi Adamu, a former governor of Nasarawa State, turned APC Nationwide Chairman when the place was zoned to the North-Central through the occasion’s Nationwide Conference in March 2022 however he resigned in July 2023 with out finishing the tenure, resulting in the appointment of Abdullahi Ganduje, ex-Kano State governor, as Nationwide Chairman in August 2023.
Ganduje, on his half, resigned on June 27, 2025, prompting the APC Discussion board to demand the return of the place to the North-Central, to allow the area full Adamu’s tenure.
“After in depth deliberations amongst stakeholders of the North-Central area, the North-Central APC Discussion board has determined to endorse Senator Tanko Al-Makura for the place of APC Nationwide Chairman. That is is furtherance of our demand that the place of Nationwide Chairman ought to return to the North-Central according to the zoning association of the APC,” the assertion launched by the Discussion board on Sunday mentioned.
