Senator Kabiru Marafa, a former chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara State, has vowed to ensure President Bola Ahmed Tinubu loses one million votes in the 2027 presidential election.
Marafa, who represented Zamfara Central in the Senate from 2011 to 2019, recently left the APC, accusing the president of a “use-and-dump” style of politics.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday, Marafa stated his resolve to work against the president’s re-election bid.
“I’m going to assure you something today. I’m going to deduct one million out of Mr. President’s votes that he got in 2023. Mark my words. I’m going to do it. I would work for it and by the special grace of God, I’m going to win that,” he said.
Responding to potential critics, he added, “Now, whether somebody said that I’m paperweight, I’m a lightweight; whatever I’m, 2027 is going to determine who is a paperweight.”
Marafa, who served as the Zamfara State Coordinator for the Tinubu/Shettima campaign organization in the 2023 elections, claimed that a widespread “heavy disenchantment” has united major politicians in the state against the current administration.
“In 2023… because of the heavy disenchantment of the people, all people, anybody that you can call substance in Zamfara State, we’re on one side. And there’s Dauda, who has never been in politics except in 2023, was able to secure victory against all of us,” he said, referencing the recent governorship election.
He continued, “Now, the only election that we were able to win was that of Mr. President and courtesy of the message that we took to the people that Mr President promised that he was going to change the reward system of the APC.”
Marafa alleged that the president has failed to fulfill this promise, claiming that the “monkey dey work, baboon dey chop” system has been entrenched under the new administration.
“He promised that he was going to eradicate the concept of monkey dey work, baboon dey chop. Only for him to entrench it, institutionalized it and it became the state policy of the APC,” he added.
