Festus Keyamo, the minister of aviation and aerospace development, has called on members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to put aside their personal political interests and focus on ensuring President Bola Tinubu secures a second term in 2027.
Keyamo stressed that Tinubu’s re-election is crucial for the continuation and completion of the reforms his administration has introduced since taking office.
“Every single APC member in Nigeria today should be concentrating on the re-election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu irrespective of whether it affects your personal interest or not because he does need a second term to fully finish up all these reforms,” Keyamo said during an interview on Channels Television on Monday.
He warned that any disruption to Tinubu’s reform agenda in 2027 could reverse the country’s progress.
Read also: Nigerians adapting to Tinubu’s reforms amid pains, shocks
“It will be tragic for any government to come in 2027 and stop all these reforms,” he said. “This is what has happened in the past when you had all the inchoate policies that were implemented.”
Keyamo also reacted to the recent defection of Delta State Governor Sheriff Oborevwori to the APC, noting that he has relinquished the party’s leadership in the state to the governor. He described the move as a necessary sacrifice to strengthen the party and boost Tinubu’s re-election bid.
“Whether I have to make sacrifices like yesterday where we surrendered (party leadership in Delta), it is all irrelevant so long as we are strengthening APC the more for the re-election of Mr President.
I don’t care whether it affects me, I don’t care whether I lose out politically, Mr President must be elected,” he said.
Commenting on the implications of Oborevwori’s defection, Keyamo declared that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had lost its stronghold in Delta State.
He argued that the governor’s move represents a major blow to the opposition ahead of the next general elections.
“The PDP knows that they have lost something like their soul. Delta was like the soul of the PDP. Delta was one of the major funders of the PDP; they have lost it,” he said.
