Youth Demand Yobe Governorship Be Zoned to Yobe North Senatorial District

A youth organization affiliated with Nguru Ina Mafita has demanded that the Yobe State governorship seat be zoned to Yobe North Senatorial District (Zone C) for the 2027 elections, arguing that such a move would promote equity, fairness and justice.

During a press conference in Nguru yesterday, the group’s leader, Ibrahim Mohammed Abubakar, made the call, asserting that Zone C has been politically marginalised since the return to democracy in 1999.

Abubakar noted that every governor elected in Yobe State has come from Yobe East (Zone A), except for the late Mamman Ali of Yobe South (Zone B), who served only two years before his death.

He added that Zone B has consistently supplied deputy governors, while Yobe North has not produced a governor, deputy governor or minister in more than twenty years.

“Yobe North (Zone C) has had no governor, no deputy governor or minister since 1999, and the only Secretary to the State Government position allocated to us has been held by a single individual for almost twelve years,” he said.

Abubakar announced that the group will back Engr. Mustapha Yunusa Maihaja of the Tafidan Nguru Emirate to run for governor in 2027.

He described Maihaja as an experienced politician and administrator who could lead the state toward greater development.

“Engr. Maihaja is a seasoned politician, bureaucrat, highly experienced in governance and capable of leading the state to progress,” he stated.

Maihaja, who previously ran for governor in 2007 and 2015, also served as Director of Campaign Planning for the Presidential Campaign Council that supported President Bola Tinubu’s 2023 election.

The group urged him not to ignore the calls from elders and youths in Nguru to contest the governorship.