The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, has said that more state governors are expected to join the party ahead of the 2027 general election. They intend to support President Bola Tinubuโs campaign for re-election.
Speaking at an expanded stakeholders meeting of the Bayelsa State chapter in Yenagoa on Tuesday, Yilwatda explained that President Tinubuโs strong performance in office has encouraged governors and senators from other parties to defect to the APC. He said their move is aimed at ensuring the president wins convincingly in 2027.
Yilwatda, who was represented by the APC Deputy National Chairman for the South, Emma Eneukwu, added that Tinubu is committed to taking Nigeria to greater heights.
He noted that not long ago, the governors of Delta State, Sheriff Oborevwori, and Akwa Ibom State, Pastor Umo Eno, had both left the Peopleโs Democratic Party (PDP) to join the APC and back the presidentโs re-election bid.
Yilwatda said: โOur doors are still open, more governors are still moving into our party, more personalities are still moving in, senators, and members of the House of Representatives, because of the calibre, integrity and the output of the person we make president.
โOther people are running around trying to challenge the President in the 2027 election, but, of course, you know, when you have a lion and other small animals are barking, the lion doesnโt even take notice of them; he goes about his duties properly; that is what the President is doing.โ
Also speaking, the former Governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, stated that the APC in Bayelsa State is very united ahead of the general election.
Meanwhile, some key leaders of the state chapter of the party were conspicuously absent as the party endorsed Tinubu for the 2027 Presidential election.
Among them were the Minister of State for Petroleum (Oil), Heineken Lokpobiri, the governorship candidate of the party during the 2019 governorship election, David Lyon, and some key leaders loyal to them.
It was gathered that the internal wrangling rocking the party in the state, which led to the suspension of Lokpobiri and other members loyal to him, seems unending, as both Lokpobiri and Sylva lay claim to the party leadership in the state.
MEANWHILE, the Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, has said that Nigerian women will give Tinubu a resounding victory in the 2027 general election.
Speaking in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, during a day working visit to the state at the Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC} built by the Ogun State Economic Transformation Project (OGSTEP), a world bank assistedprogramme,Sulaiman-Ibrahim disclosed that under the Renewed Hope Agenda of the President, the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development has embedded this vision in the Renewed Hope Social Impact Intervention Programmes.
These programmes, she said, are designed to restore dignity, expand opportunities, and strengthen families, as well as ensuring that no woman, child, or vulnerable person is left behind.
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