2027: South South APC adopts Tinubu as sole candidate

… endorses four governors

The South-South stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, at its zonal stakeholders meeting in Benin City,  Edo State capital, on Saturday, adopted President Bola Tinubu as its sole candidate for the 2027 presidential election.

They also adopted the governors of Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Delta, and Edo as the sole candidates of the party during their respective governorship elections.

The Leader of the House of Representatives, Prof. Julius Ihonvbere, moved a motion for the adoption of the communique and was seconded by Sen. Adams Oshiomhole, while the communique was read by the APC National Vice Chairman (South South), Victor Giadom.

Giadom said the zone’s decision to support Tínubu was for his transformational leadership and agenda.

He also lauded the president for the creation of the South-South Development Commission and the ongoing construction of the Lagos-Calabar coastal road.

Giadom applauded the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, for making the zone proud by supporting President Tínubu and his infrastructural transformation of the FCT.

He appealed to the governors of Bayelsa and Rivers to join the APC.

In his speech, the acting national chairman of the APC, Alhaji Ali Dalori, commended the leadership of the party in the zone for organising the meeting.

Dalori, who formally welcomed the governor of Akwa-Ibom to the party, added that the President Tinubu-led government has no intention to turn Nigeria into a one-party state.