Ahead of the 2027 general elections, members of the Zonal Executives Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have designed programmes for the success of President Bola Tinubu’s second term ambition, saying he deserved a second term to consolidate what he is currently doing in the country.
Isaac Kekemeke, the South West Zonal Chairman of APC, who spoke with newsmen after their meeting on Wednesday in Akure, the Ondo state capital, said; “our goal is that the Southwest must do to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu electorally what the Northwest consistently did for the late President Muhammadu Buhari.”
According to him, the purpose of their meeting was to discuss on how they would recruit canvassers in all wards across all states in the Southwest in preparation for the 2027 presidential election for President Tinubu.
Kekemeke explained that the canvassers would avail the people at the grassroots level and all wards the efforts and results of President Tinubu’s socio-economic policies and programmes for the development of the federation.
He explained that the Committee had assessed and evaluated the economic policies and various programmes being introduced and implemented by the President Ahmed Tinubu-led Government and discovered that he had done creditably well.
The APC chieftain disclosed that they also based their verdict on the comments and assessments of experts, international organizations and international financial institutions on President Tinubu’s performances across different sectors which were positive.
The executives members, therefore, gave President Tinubu a pass mark, saying he deserved a second term to consolidate what he’s currently doing.
Kekemeke, who acknowledged the challenges being faced by Nigerians, however, noted that they would soon be a thing of the past.
He said; “the Zonal Executive Committee of All Progressives Congress (APC), which includes the six chairmen of the party in the zone and National Executive Council (NEC) members of the party in the zone met today in Akure and they deliberated extensively on the state of the party in the zone.
“The party set up a committee to work with the coordinating governor of the party in the zone, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State and other governors in the zone to organize a rally, an assembly or a congress of the zone which is tentatively scheduled for the end of September.
“A committee has, therefore, been set up to work out a modality for that congress. 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.
“Two. The officers of the zone(Southwest) had decided to appoint canvassers for president Tinubu in all the about 2000 electoral wards in the Southwest zone.
“We cannot wait because we believe that as the zone of the President, we must lead the crusade for his re-election.
“The zonal executives also appraised the performances of the President and came up with conclusion that, even though the zone recognizes the pain of the people, it is convinced that the President has done so well for the people as attested to by the international committee, international financial institutions, economic experts and by all those which you know.
“They are beginning to feel the results of the bold initiative and socio-economic transformation that is happening in Nigeria. Prices of things are beginning to stabilize and coming down, the foreign exchange is coming down, debts are being paid and Nigeria is becoming internationally respectable.
“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 say NO.
“So, there is international respectability for Nigeria both politically and economically and we think that all of these must be consolidated.
“There must be consolidation of this tenure so that after President Tinubu’s eight years, Nigeria can continue to march forward.
“So, we are convinced that the President is the best thing that have happened to our country even though we acknowledge that these reforms have brought about pains that we believe are temporary for our citizens and for the people of the Southwest.
“We believe that in a not distant time, these pains will pave way and will give ways to prosperities and peace in our country.”
