ADC North West Gov’ship Candidates Sign Compact For Zonal Security, Development ,Back Atiku’s Fuel Subsidy Reversal Proposal

Governorship candidates of the African Democratic Convention (ADC) in the seven North Western states, have signed Compact 2027–2031 as a regional covenant for security, development and shared prosperity if elected in next year’s gubernatorial election.

The guber candidates signed the Compact organised by the North West Governorship Strategy Group at the Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja on Wednesday as the 2027 governorship campaigns kicked-off.

According to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) timetable and schedule of activities for next year’s polls, Governorship and State Houses of Assembly campaigns commenced Wednesday, September 9, 2026.

The governorship candidates include: Kebbi – Abubakar Malami, SAN; Sokoto -Manir Mohammad Daniya; Jigawa – Sabo Mohammed Nakudu; Zamfara – Shinkafi Bilyaminu Yusuf; Kastina State – Senator Ahmad Babba Kaita represented by deputy, Aminu Yar’adua Ahmed; Kaduna -Isa Mohammed Ashru represented by deputy, Kantiok Irmiya Ishaku

an Kano -Ibrahim Ali Amin  represented by Deputy Sabo Mohammed Nakudu.

Speaking on behalf of the governorship candidates, former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice who is the ADC flag-bearer for Kebbi state, Abubakar Malami lamented that

the region is crisis ridden with

over 16,000 lives lost on account of insecurity between June 2023 and August 2026.

He also stated that more than 1,583 kidnapping incidents since January 2023 have taken over 10,000 of our people from their homes and farms while tens of thousands of households had been displaced, and more than 533,000 hectares of farmland in Zamfara and Katsina alone now lie abandoned.