APC Isn’t Panicking, We’re Confident Of Winning 2027 Election – Jibrin

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdulmumin Jibrin, has expressed confidence that President Bola Tinubu and the ruling party will win the 2027 general elections, dismissing suggestions that the party is worried about the contest.

Jibrin, a member of the House of Representatives representing Kiru/Bebeji Federal Constituency of Kano State, stated this on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.

He said all the indices, calculations and permutations point to victory for the APC and Tinubu, who is seeking re-election for a second term.

“APC is not panicking, we are not panicking in any way. We are very confident we are going to win the election. As a Muslim you would always want to put God in it, but I am telling you even from human angle, every calculation, every indices, every mathematics you will do favours the APC, favours President Bola Tinubu,” Jibrin said.

The lawmaker also dismissed claims that Tinubu was losing support in Northern Nigeria, describing a viral video showing people chanting “bamayi” as the President’s convoy passed as possibly generated by artificial intelligence (AI).

He argued that an incident in one location should not be used to assess the President’s popularity across the entire North, insisting that Tinubu has more supporters in the region than his opponents.

“Assuming but not conceding it happened, but in just one place. Two, three, five people say something and you want to make it a big issue? It is completely inconsequential. How many rallies have you seen and all they are chanting ‘Sai Tinubu, Sai Tinubu’, even before the campaign. And now you take one incident that I cannot even verify because they are AI things going around and you want to make it a big issue and basis of analysis?” he asked.

Jibrin further maintained that Northern Nigeria had every reason to support Tinubu in the 2027 election, citing what he described as the President’s contributions to the region over the years.

“When you take all he has done for the North in the past decades and what he is doing for the North at the moment, the North has every reason to support President Bola Tinubu,” he said.

On the President’s opponents, particularly Peter Obi of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Jibrin said the former Anambra State governor had no plans or strategies to deliver on the promises he was making to Nigerians.