- Says President betrayed the north, cannot demand its votes again
The Makinde-Daura Presidential Campaign Organization (MDPCO) has dismissed the scheduled flag-off of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s 2027 Presidential Campaign in Kaduna State, scheduled to take place on Saturday as mere political Callithumpian that cannot save him from defeat by the Allied People’s Movement (APM) Presidential flagbearer, Engineer Seyi Makinde.
MDPCO said President Tinubu’s punishing policies and their life-discounting consequences on millions of citizens have become scarlet letters for which Nigerians have rejected him and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).
It further lamented that the President’s assurance in Kaduna that Northerners would “never regret voting him” is now a huge irony as many now have compelling reasons to question their political investment in the APC having been unpardonably disappointed.
These were contained in a statement by Richard Nnanna Ihediwa, Director of Strategic Communications of MDPCO in which he stated that Nigerians do not expect anything from Tinubu’s Campaign Flag-off beyond the usual spewing of lies, deceit, vague promises and false performance claims by the discredited and rejected APC leaders and fraudulent political gamblers clobbered together by greed and lust for power.
The statement dated Friday, October 23, 2026, said since President Tinubu decided to flag off his 2027 Presidential campaign in Kaduna, the political headquarters of the North, the MDPCO challenge him to explain what the region has gained from his incompetent and nepotic administration beyond a bumper harvest of bloodshed, crushing economic hardship, broken promises and shattered public trust.
It urged Nigerians to note that at the APC North-West campaign rally in Kaduna on December 13, 2022, Tinubu declared: “All those troublemakers, all those kidnappers, killers who are troubling the security of Kaduna and Northern Nigeria, I assure you, we will eliminate them.”
MDPCO also said Nigerians cannot forget in a hurry that Tinubu had promised that every inch of Nigerian territory would be secured and defended, and in the words of MDPCO; “Three and half years later, under his watch, bandits and terrorists continue to kill, abduct and displace citizens across the North-West, and other parts of Nigeria.
“Since President Tinubu assumed office in 2023, not less than 20,000 of our compatriots have been killed in the northern parts of the country, with many more abducted while President Tinubu do no more than issuing orders from the Villa and authorizing lame press statements without any corresponding concrete presidential action to tackle insecurity in the region and other parts of Nigeria.
“Beyond the killings and mass abductions, an estimated 3.7 million people have been internally displaced with shattered families, paralyzed businesses and communities abandoned to fear, terror and death under President Tinubu’s watch,” it stated.
The MDPCO stated that regrettably, nothing exposed the government’s misplaced priorities more than reports that the APC campaign billboards are now under police and other security agencies’ protection while vulnerable communities remain at the mercy of bandits, emphasizing that under President Tinubu, political advertisements appear better protected than human lives.
It further stated; “Besides, the marginalisation of the North in appointments to strategic sectors of the federal government reinforces the perception that President Tinubu regards the region as nothing more than a convenient reservoir of electoral votes, courted at election time and sidelined thereafter”.
The MDPCO stressed that no part of the country should be an electoral warehouse to be raided every four years and abandoned after victory, saying that Nigerians, wherever they are, deserve more than campaign promises.
In the words of MDPCO; “The deserve security, affordable living, thriving farms, reliable electricity, quality education and accountable leadership. No part of the country must be a source of votes for the powerful and a place of neglect for the powerless”.
The organization challenged President Tinubu come to terms with the fact that he has failed and that Nigerians are determined to replace him with Engr. Seyi Makinde whose RESET NIGERIA Agenda offers a clear alternative; people before power, security before propaganda, and public welfare before elite privilege. MDPCO said; “Nigeria needs a leadership that delivers, not a presidency that deceives”.
