North-Central APC Forum hails Al-Makura’s appointment as Renewed Hope zonal coordinator

The North-Central All Progressives Congress (APC) Forum has described the appointment of former Nasarawa State Governor, Senator Tanko Al-Makura, as the Renewed Hope Coordinator for the region by President Bola Tinubu as strategic and well-deserved.

President Tinubu recently named six zonal coordinators to drive the activities of the Renewed Hope Initiative Committees across the country.

The appointees, who will work with Renewed Hope Ambassador and Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, are Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa (South-South), Isah Yuguda (North-East), Aminu Bello Masari (North-West), Senator Anyim Pius Anyim (South-East), Oladipupo Oyinbade (South-West), and Al-Makura (North-Central).

The coordinators are expected to lead grassroots engagements, mobilisation efforts, and socio-economic interventions in line with the administration’s national renewal agenda.

In a statement by its Chairman, Saleh Zazzaga, the North-Central APC Forum said Al-Makura has the competence, experience, and party credibility to effectively prosecute the mandate.

While commending President Tinubu for appointing “a capable and highly acceptable personality” and pledging its full cooperation, the Forum emphasized that Al-Makura’s appointment will strengthen its earlier pledge to mobilise six million votes for Tinubu in the 2027 election.

The Forum highlighted Al-Makura’s longstanding contributions to the APC, recalling that he was the only governor from the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) during the merger that birthed the APC in 2013, making him one of its founding pillars.

Tracing his political background to his days as Youth Leader of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) in Plateau State in 1979 to buttress his political sagacity and justify President Tinubu’s choice, the Forum noted, “Mr President could not have made a better choice, and we hereby congratulate Senator Tanko Al-Makura on this well-deserved appointment.

“Senator Al-Makura was the only governor in the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC bloc, during the merger talks that resulted in the birth of the APC, making him one of the founders of the party.

“He is a two-term governor with clout and experience, and both former and sitting governors see him as one of their own. As a former senator, he is regarded as part and parcel of the legislature.

“He was among the chairmanship aspirants who accepted without grudges the consensus option that threw up Abdullahi Adamu as National Chairman during the APC National Convention in 2022. His loyalty to the APC and Mr. President is not in doubt.

“He has discharged critical party assignments in the country, which gave him firsthand and intrinsic knowledge of the party nationally.”

The Forum listed assignments handled by Al-Makura to include chairing the Ekiti APC Governorship Primary that produced Kayode Fayemi in 2018, serving as Chairman of the North-East Reconciliation Committee the same year, and membership of the Bisi Akande-led National Reconciliation Committee in 2020.

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The Forum also congratulated Governor Hope Uzodinma on his appointment as Director-General for Party Outreach, Engagement and Mobilisation, expressing confidence that both appointments will strengthen grassroots acceptance of the Renewed Hope Agenda ahead of the 2027 polls.