Southern Kaduna Group Seeks Political Alignment For 2027 Polls

The Southern Kaduna Renaissance Front (SKRF) has urged a strategical governmental realignment up of the 2027 wide elections, calling connected stakeholders to see forging stronger ties with the authorities astatine the national level to warrant greater improvement and governmental appointments for the region.

The telephone was made astatine the SKRF’s 2025 Young Persons Political Conference successful Kaduna nether the chairmanship of Dr Monday Barau Madaki.

The league brought unneurotic young leaders, assemblage representatives and stakeholders to deliberate connected the theme, “Charting a Path to 2027: Alignment oregon Opposition to the Centre.”

The meeting, facilitated by Dr Philibus Nwamagyi Audu and Mr Luka Binniyat, discussed the pros and cons of aligning with the ruling centre, culminating successful respective cardinal resolutions aimed astatine shaping the region’s governmental future.

Rejecting the fashionable cognition of Southern Kaduna arsenic a minority, the league described the portion arsenic a socio-cultural entity comprising 12 section authorities areas – Kaduna South, Chikun, Kajuru, Kagarko, Kachia, Jaba, Zangon Kataf, Jema’a, Sanga, Kaura, Kauru and Lere – with an estimated colonisation of 51.2 per cent of Kaduna State based connected the 2006 census.

The radical demanded the contiguous adoption of a two-zone governmental operation successful Kaduna State – North and South – for equitable organisation of governmental offices and governorship rotation. It condemned the existing three-zone arrangement, labelling it arsenic an effort to politically marginalise Southern Kaduna.

Highlighting the region’s captious relation successful the occurrence of the All Progressives Congress (APC) successful 2015 and 2019 elections, the league noted that Southern Kaduna contributed implicit 40 per cent of votes successful 2015 and 30 per cent successful 2019 toward the APC’s governorship and statesmanlike victories successful the state.

While appreciating national and authorities authorities interventions, including strategical appointments and infrastructural projects specified arsenic the Federal University of Applied Sciences, Kachia, and the Federal Medical Centre, Kafanchan, the SKRF expressed dissatisfaction with the constricted prime and quantity of state-level appointments nether Governor Uba Sani’s administration, calling for an betterment up of 2027.

The league was divided connected the prime betwixt governmental alignment oregon absorption to the national centre. However, the bulk favoured strategical confederation to consolidate gains and beforehand the region’s improvement agenda.

It was recommended that each elected representatives from Southern Kaduna, including Senators and members of the House of Representatives, align with the centre for the payment of their constituents.

The SKRF called connected Southern Kaduna youths and politicians to contention governorship tickets of each large governmental parties successful 2027 to guarantee that the portion produces astatine slightest 1 viable campaigner for the state’s highest office.

The communiqué was signed by Comrade Sabastine Bahori Luka (Convener) and Pastor Jerome Waziri (Secretary), alongside different participants.