Abdul'Aziz Abubakar Yari
Director-General, APC Presidential Campaign Council
The man running the ground game — and the reason this app is called YFT.
Born
28 September 1968, Talata Mafara
Office
Senator, Zamfara West, since June 2023
Campaign role
Director-General, 2027 PCC
Previously
Governor of Zamfara State, 2011–2019
Also served
Chairman, Nigeria Governors' Forum
Party
All Progressives Congress
Senator Abdul'Aziz Abubakar Yari
Senator Abdul'Aziz Abubakar Yari is the Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council for the 2027 general election — responsible for turning national support for the Tinubu–Shettima ticket into structure on the ground, ward by ward.
Born on 28 September 1968 in Talata Mafara, Zamfara State, he was educated at Talata Mafara Township Primary School and Government Teachers' College Bakura, studied at Sokoto Polytechnic, and took a graduate diploma in public administration at Kebbi Polytechnic.
He was elected Governor of Zamfara State in April 2011 and served two full terms, from 29 May 2011 to 29 May 2019, chairing the Nigeria Governors' Forum — the body through which all 36 governors negotiate with the federal government — during that period.
He returned to elective office as Senator for Zamfara West on 13 June 2023. When President Tinubu constituted the 108-member Presidential Campaign Council in August 2026, Yari was named Director-General — and the YFT platform launched days later as the council's digital mobilisation arm.
Career timeline
1979–1994
Education
Talata Mafara Township Primary School, Government Teachers' College Bakura, then Sokoto Polytechnic.
2011–2019
Governor of Zamfara State
Two full terms as the state's 4th governor, from 29 May 2011 to 29 May 2019.
2015–2019
Chairman, Nigeria Governors' Forum
Led the forum through which all 36 governors coordinate with the federal government.
2023
Senator, Zamfara West
Sworn into the 10th National Assembly on 13 June 2023.
2026
Director-General, PCC
Named DG of the 108-member APC Presidential Campaign Council, alongside Governor Hope Uzodimma as Secretary.
2027
Running the ground game
Coordinating mobilisation across 774 LGAs and 8,809 wards to the 16 January poll.
What running the ground game means.
A campaign director-general is judged on one thing: whether the structure reaches the polling unit. This is what that brief looks like in practice.
108
A council covering six zones
The PCC is a 108-member structure with the President as Chairman and the Vice President as Vice Chairman, zonal directors in all six geopolitical zones, and Senator Adams Oshiomhole as Deputy DG for Mobilisation.
8,809
Mobilisation to ward level
Coordination is organised down to Nigeria's 8,809 registration wards — the level at which turnout is actually won or lost.
37
Every state, no exceptions
Structure across all 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, with the same message, the same figures and the same membership standard everywhere.
A digital arm, not a paper register
The YFT app was commissioned so membership could be issued, verified and counted from a phone — replacing the paper registers and fragmented group chats campaigns have always relied on.
“Every ward, every polling unit, every voter — we are mobilising the grassroots to secure a second term for Mr. President and consolidate the gains of Renewed Hope.”
Sen. Abdul'Aziz Yari, Director-General, APC Presidential Campaign Council
