Former All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart, Senator Kabiru Marafa, has declared that he will work against President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election, pledging to strip the President of at least one million votes.
Marafa, who represented Zamfara Central in the Senate from 2011 to 2019, made the vow on Monday during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
“I assure you today, I will deduct one million votes from Mr. President’s tally in 2027. By God’s grace, I will achieve it,” Marafa said.
The former lawmaker, who coordinated the Tinubu/Shettima campaign in Zamfara during the 2023 election, recently resigned from the APC along with his supporters. He accused President Tinubu of betrayal, describing his leadership style as “use-and-dump” politics that abandoned loyal party members after victory.
Brushing off claims that he has become irrelevant in the political scene, Marafa challenged his critics: “Whether they say I’m a paperweight or lightweight, 2027 will prove who carries weight.”
According to him, disenchantment with the APC has united major political actors in Zamfara State against the ruling party. He pointed to the victory of Governor Dauda Lawal in 2023 as evidence that popular resentment toppled established APC figures, including former governors and federal lawmakers.
Marafa further accused Tinubu of failing to reform the party’s internal reward system, a promise he said was central to the APC’s 2023 campaign.
“People were already dissatisfied at the end of Buhari’s administration. Tinubu promised to end the ‘monkey dey work, baboon dey chop’ system. Instead, he entrenched and institutionalised it as state policy,” he said.
His defection and open confrontation with the presidency add to growing cracks within the APC as political realignments intensify ahead of the 2027 elections.
