South-west APC begins grassroots mobilisation for Tinubu’s re-election

The south-west zonal executive committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) says it will recruit canvassers across all 2,000 electoral wards in the region to mobilise support for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election in 2027.

The decision was taken at a meeting in Akure, the Ondo state capital, attended by the six state chairmen of the party in the zone and members of the national executive council (NEC).

Isaac Kekemeke, south-west zonal chairman of the APC, said the canvassers will engage grassroots communities with information on Tinubu’s policies and achievements.

Kekemeke said the zonal leadership has reviewed the president’s performance and found him deserving of a second term.

He said the verdict was based not only on local observations but also on the “positive assessments” of international organisations, financial institutions and economic experts.

“The zonal executive committee met today in Akure and deliberated extensively on the state of the party in the zone,” he said.

“The party set up a committee to work with the coordinating governor of the party in the zone, Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos state, and other governors to organise a rally or congress of the zone at the end of September.

“Obviously, apart from discussing the activities of the party in the entire zone, the committee would come up with modalities for working for the second term of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2027.

“Our goal is that the south-west must do to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu electorally what the north-west consistently did for the late President Muhammadu Buhari.”

He said despite current economic challenges, the reforms of the Tinubu administration are beginning to yield results.

“Prices of things are beginning to stabilise and coming down, the foreign exchange is coming down, debts are being paid, and Nigeria is becoming internationally respectable,” Kekemeke said.

“Nigeria refused under the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to become a dumping ground for refugees of some Americans, and Nigeria was respected as one country that stood up and said NO.

“We are convinced that the president is the best thing that has happened to our country, even though we acknowledge that these reforms have brought about pains we believe are temporary.”

Speaking on political coalitions ahead of the 2027 elections, Kekemeke said opposition alliances are part of democracy but dismissed their chances.

“They are people that have been tested and have failed, failed and failed,” he said.

“If people have failed over time, it will be terrible for Nigerians to abandon someone setting Nigeria on the path to greatness and go back to those that have failed.”