The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State has maintained that the Southwest region will stand by President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 general elections.
This assertion comes in response to comments made by supporters of PDP presidential aspirant, Dr. Gbenga Olawepo Hashim, suggesting that the Southwest wouldn’t re-elect Tinubu in 2027.
APC spokesman Seye Oladejo said Olawepo Hashim lacks the electoral muscle to win a national contest, adding that the Southwest won’t abandon its own for a project of theatrical ambition without substance. “In 2027, voters will choose continuity with a president who has delivered direction and results not the empty spectacle offered by political tourists,” Oladejo stated.
The APC insists that President Tinubu’s administration has laid visible and irreversible foundations across infrastructure, education, agriculture, security, and fiscal reforms. Oladejo emphasized that Tinubu will crush all gang-ups against his re-election in 2027, dismissing Olawepo Hashim’s attempts to caricature the administration’s record as “particularly distasteful and unacceptable”.
Olawepo Hashim’s group, however, remains adamant that the Southwest will reject Tinubu in 2027 due to his administration’s poor economic record. Alhaji Abass Olaniyi, South West Coordinator of the Gbenga Hashim Solidarity Movement, described Tinubu’s claims of GDP growth as “a mirage created by currency devaluation that leaves Nigerians poorer than ever”.
Olaniyi further argued that Nigerians don’t eat GDP statistics; they eat food, and under Tinubu, food is unaffordable. “Our people are too politically conscious to reward hunger, poverty, and economic collapse with fresh endorsement,” Olaniyi declared.
The APC has urged Nigerians to reject the opposition’s narrative, emphasizing that Tinubu’s administration has delivered results. “Those who traffic in selective statistics and currency rhetoric do so because they cannot defend the alternative: a return to the waste, arrogance, and economic mismanagement that nearly extinguished our nation’s potential,” Oladejo said.
