Nigeria, March 27 -- Speakers of states' houses of assemblies from North-west Nigeria have endorsed the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, for president in the 2023 general election, Mudashiru Obasa, the Speaker of the Lagos Assembly has said.

A statement issued by Mr Obasa's media office Saturday said the speakers pledged their support at a meeting held at Kano on Friday.

A former speaker from Kano, Abdullahi Yanshana, reportedly said "95 per cent of the votes from Kano in 2023 will be in favour of the national leader of the APC", the statement said.

Mr Obasa said both the serving speakers and their predecessors in the North-west zone declared their support for Mr Tinubu as the successor to President ...