Minister of State for Defence Bello Muhammad Matawalle has predicted that President Bola Tinubu would carry the North-West and broader northern vote in 2027 with margins exceeding those recorded in the 2023 presidential election, arguing that the visible impact of the Renewed Hope Agenda on security, infrastructure, agriculture, and social investment had created a deepening electoral base across the region.
In a statement issued through his media aide, Matawalle dismissed opposition claims about deteriorating security and governance as a campaign of propaganda and misinformation designed to obscure measurable progress, saying critics were deliberately focusing on isolated incidents to create an atmosphere of fear while ignoring the systematic gains recorded across Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna, and Kebbi states through a more coordinated and intelligence-driven security approach.
He said the Tinubu administration’s security strategy had produced the neutralization of several notorious bandit leaders, the destruction of criminal bases, and the restoration of sufficient stability in previously volatile areas to allow displaced communities to return to farming and normal economic activity, arguing that these outcomes represented tangible dividends that northern voters could see and feel rather than abstract macroeconomic statistics.
On development, Matawalle listed road rehabilitation, rail and energy investments, agricultural value chain support, food security interventions, and youth and women’s empowerment programs as concrete government activities benefiting northern communities, and said the administration’s commitment to education and local industrial development was receiving positive responses from citizens across the region who were experiencing the results firsthand.
