Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, the governor of Sokoto State and the director general of the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Council, is doing everything in his power to ensure that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the PDP candidate for president on February 25, 2023, will win.
The vivacious 57-year-old, 1991 law graduate of Usman Dan Fod, who started his political career in 1999 as the personal assistant on legislative affairs to Senator Abdullahi Wali, the then Senate Leader, and was elected to the House of Representatives on the platform of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) in 2003 to represent Kebbe/Tambuwal Federal Constituency, won the hearts of admirers.
Tambuwal has been actively involved in national politics for almost 25 years, outside of his current role as the chief executive of Sokoto State. This distinguishes him from many more recent entrants to Nigeria’s political scene. He is notable for having held a number of positions in the House of Representatives.
He was appointed House Minority Leader in 2005 and served in that capacity until he joined the PDP. He became the Deputy Chief Whip in 2007 after being re-elected to the House. The House Committees on Rules and Business, Communications, Judiciary, Inter-Parliamentary, and Water Resources were among the committees he served on at various points in time. He also participated in the House Ad-hoc Constitution Review Committee. He served as the head of several committees, including the House Subcommittee on the Bill for an Act to Amend the Land Use Act, the Ad-hoc Committee that reviewed the report of the contentious power probe committee led by Ndudi Elumelu, and the House Committee on Power’s acting chairmanship.
At the ACP-EU Parliamentary Assembly, which was held in Prague, Czech Republic, in April 2009, Tambuwal led the Nigerian delegation and served as vice-chairman of the economic committee.
He ran for and won the Sokoto State governorship election on April 11, 2015, and he was re-elected in the March 9, 2019, and March 22, 2019, supplementary Sokoto State elections.
When Atiku emerged as the PDP’s presidential candidate in May, it was Tambuwal’s collective experience, hard work, and shrewd strategy that made him the PDP’s top recommendation for the challenging job of ensuring the Waziri Adamawa won Nigeria’s presidency in the election on February 25, 2023.
Tambuwal has taken the higher duties very seriously ever since he and other appointees into the body – Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State (Chairman), Senator Liyel Imoke (Deputy Director General), Governors Bala Mohammed (Bauchi) and Seyi Makinde (Oyo) as vice chairmen for the northern and southern regions, respectively; Prof. Adewale Oladipo, High Chief Raymond Dokpesi, Additionally, the atmosphere has been positive in the national headquarters and all PDP branches.
To start, Tambuwal promised issue-based campaigns as he got started, showing that he was ready for the challenging job. Atiku is very well prepared to provide the necessary leadership for this country at this time, according to the suave learned man, as lawyers are known, who said this at his first press conference last September. He said, “I believe none of the other candidates can match his experience in governance at the federal level.”
At the time, he added that “this is not the time for Nigerians to go for trial and error” and warned them against experimentation. It’s time for Nigerians to elect someone who has proven themselves and has the necessary experience to do a good job. This person should be able to get started right away, just as we did when the Campaign Council was established on September 28, the day INEC lifted the campaign ban.
More importantly, Tambuwal promised politics devoid of animosity. “Our campaign will be based on issues. We’re going to market our candidates in accordance with the program we launched, which is typically solution-based, the man said.
At Uyo, the capital of Akwa Ibom State, on Monday, October 10, Tambuwal got things started as the PDP launched its nationwide campaigns.
Tambuwal has been quietly and carefully guiding his team across every inch of this nation ever since the Atiku/Okowa campaigns got underway. He consults and networks constantly to emphasize that Atiku is the best candidate for the six geopolitical regions of this nation. Tambuwal has taken the presidential campaign team to 25 states, according to the most recent tally.
It was a historic welcome for the “Home Boy” on January 31, 2023, as Tambuwal flew the PDP presidential candidate and his entourage into Sokoto. The enormous crowd, previously unheard in the capital of the Caliphate since the presidential election campaigns got underway in 2023, was jubilant as the incumbent governor of the state and his team chanted the party’s slogans inside the Giginya Memorial Stadium, the rally’s location.
Tambuwal urged the people of the state to vote PDP in order to promote prosperity and economic recovery, as he had done everywhere he had led the party.
He said that in order to fix the situation in Nigeria, a man with experience and good mental and physical health is required. He added that because Nigerians have experienced both darkness and light, they are better equipped to make informed decisions.
Mallam Saidu Umar, the PDP candidate for governor in Sokoto State and also known as Mallam Ubandoman Sokoto, expressed his sincere gratitude to the state’s residents for attending the significant event in such large numbers.
“We owe Allah, the Almighty, a great deal of gratitude for this day. We cannot express our gratitude to the people of Sokoto State, the Caliphate’s capital, in enough words, he said.
He claimed that the massive turnout at the campaign was evidence of the unwavering solidarity and support that the people of the State had for him and that they were unhappy with the way the APC government was running the nation.
Ubandoma also made the observation that the large turnout at the campaign reflected the overwhelming satisfaction of the populace with the actions of the current PDP administration led by Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal.
Atiku Abubakar reeled out his “Recover Nigeria” program, emphasizing ending insecurity, youth and women empowerment, boosting agricultural production, economic development, education, and others, adding that these will bring back Nigeria to its former glory. Tambuwal seemed pleased with the campaign train’s success since October of last year. To increase international trade, he declared that he would open Nigeria’s border with the Niger Republic.
“I would like all of you here to come out en masse to vote for all PDP candidates in Sokoto State,” Atiku said, turning to face the agitated crowd. I don’t think Sokoto will get less than 1.5 million votes.
Also promising the Atiku/Okowa team that “PDP will win all the electoral contests in the state in the upcoming elections” was Tambuwal, a tenacious national political strategist of North West Nigerian descent.
Given these precedents, Tambuwal is seen as the man who will lead the Atiku/Okowa ticket to victory this month by both PDP politicians and opponents.
