According to the Presidency, following a midterm evaluation of President Bola Tinubu’s performance, the All Progressives Congress (APC) decided to field him as their only presidential candidate in 2027.
According to Naija News, in recognition of Tinubu’s achievements, the APC National Assembly Caucus and the party’s governors’ forum on Thursday approved him for a second term.
Godswill Akpabio, the Senate President, stated that Tinubu has been accepted as the APC’s only presidential candidate during his remarks at the APC National Summit in Abuja.
Daniel Bwala, Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Policy Communication, stated during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday that the APC leadership conducted an evaluation and decided that Tinubu was deserving of another term.
Bwala went on to enumerate the accomplishments of Tinubu’s administration since its start and stated that he is deserving of a second term.
He remarked, “What transpired was beautiful to see; it’s a tapestry of organization and it proves that the APC is a progressive party that is upholding its principles.”
“The problem that we used to have before now is that political parties come, win elections and they don’t sit down to access and re-access their performance. Since this midterm is a performance evaluation of the president himself, you are undoubtedly aware of the performance metrics that the president established for the ministers.
Therefore, submitting to such performance evaluation to a significant degree demonstrates the president’s commitment to development.
“The event did not start today actually, before now, people were asked to review our promises and manifestos to the Nigerian people vis-a-vis our performance so far to see if the president has gotten to the point where he would deserve a second term.
“What happened is a party affair and that’s why it’s perfectly normal. You have to be able to decide within the party a direction, then you can come out to say this is what we think.
“It’s an expression of organization, beauty, and as a part of what the president has achieved that allowed the members to say we are giving him that opportunity which is obvious to all Nigerians.
“The word delivered means he has concluded the first term, he will be the first person to tell you that there are numbers of things that are yet to be seen. If you ask the question has the president performed? My answer will be a very big capital yes. And where I’m coming from, when the president took the oath of office, the situation and economy around Nigeria was very tight, people were buying naira with naira.
“States that could not pay salaries then, most of them are meeting up to the minimum wage, they are doing projects and most of them are even paying their debts, and all these happened because of increased revenue – that is because of the president.
“There is a misconception by anybody who wants to see what transpired as an engagement with Nigerians, it was a party affair – party affair at any given time, you can pass a vote of confidence – the party must do self introspection.
“What transpired is our own internal examination prior to bringing our own external examiners, who are Nigerians, and does not in any way imply to Nigerians that the party has done everything.”
“We looked at the two and came to the conclusion that, given what we saw and what he has done in two years, he deserves another time.” “We have manifestos and things we wanted to do ranging from NELFUND to infrastructure to security.”
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