The Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, has offered reasons why he is considering running for the Nasarawa North Senatorial District seat in the 2027 general election.
The governor offered the reasons when he featured on a Channels Television interview programme: “Politics Today,” on Monday.
Sule said: “The overwhelming pressure from parents, supporters, people that have worked with me throughout the period is so overwhelming that it is a situation that I can reconsider.
“Every time I have made any statement, I have kept this statement for the entire six and a half years I have been a governor.
“Every time I had said I was going to do something, I did it.”
Sule dismissed claims that he was toeing the line of his predecessors, who moved to the Senate after completing their governorship terms in office.
Asked if he genuinely needed the senatorial ticket, he replied in the negative, saying: “Before I became a governor, I was highly relevant in this country.
“I was the Managing Director of African Petroleum.
“I got my name from the capital market for that.
“I am one of the governors who ran one of the most successful companies, at one time the most capitalised company in Nigeria: Dangote Sugar Refinery PLC.
“I made my name from there.
“I have done a lot of other things.
“Among the governors, I am currently the Chairman of the North-Central Governors’ Forum.
“As a matter of fact, in two days’ time, Nasarawa State is going to be the host of what is going to be the zonal congress in Lafia.”
Sule, a two-term governor who will complete his constitutionally sanctioned tenure as a governor by May 29 next year, says he does not know who will succeed him.
He, however, said there were several people from the state who were qualified to contest the governorship ticket.
