The group described as heartbreaking a situation where another Northerner is being paraded to become a presidential candidate given that the incumbent president is from the north.

The convener and project director of the group, Ajayi Taiwo, who spoke yesterday, noted that such act is capable of setting the country ablaze, while urging the northern elders to have a change of mindset and support Tinubu as their candidate for the 2023 election in the spirit of fairness.
The group, however, applauded the Northern progressive governors and northern traditional institutions, northern youths and scholars for their support for Tinubu’s ambition.

He said: “The recent adoption and endorsement of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar by some Northern Elders, recently, Asiwaju’s presidential agenda project condemned the endorsement. Such an endorsement can set the country ablaze. How can they support the idea of a Northerner handing over to another Northerner at this time when other regions are seriously complaining and calling for equal opportunities and balancing in the democratic arrangements of governance in the country? We cannot imagine the moral justification behind the endorsement of a northerner again after the eight years of outgoing Northerner.

“We, therefore, want to advise the elders in question to stop what our group refer to as an act that can set our country ablaze, we would, therefore, advice the northern elders to please change their mindset and support Tinubu, as their preferred candidate, as he is on a mission to transform Nigeria for the betterment of the country, irrespective of tribe and colour.”

The group also commended the APC presidential aspirants, who stepped down for Tinubu during the primary and those who accepted defeat in the spirit of sportsmanship.
He said that the Asiwaju Presidential Agenda Project has resolved to form NACOPUAM to get a better result at the polls.

“The need to change our strategy and introduce NACOPUAM was borne out of our genuine desire to make good use of so many Pro Asiwaju Shettima support groups that has been working tirelessly without any serious recognition by breaking them into polling units with specific assignment to carried out, in their various polling units, our strategies are our strength.”

He added that NACOPUAM is a project of Asiwaju Presidential Agenda, the first pro Independent Asiwaju’s political pressure group that was founded during the first term of President Muhammadu Buhari in office, “we are an unrepentant pro Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu political pressure group.”