ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State has declared that the South-West will stand firmly behind President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 general elections.
The party’s spokesman, Mr. Seye Oladejo, stated this on Saturday in Lagos while reacting to remarks attributed to supporters of a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, Dr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, who claimed the region would not re-elect Tinubu in 2027.
Oladejo dismissed the comments, saying that Olawepo-Hashim had never built a durable political structure nor demonstrated the electoral capacity needed to win a national contest.
According to him, President Tinubu would crush all those plotting against his reelection in 2027.
“Olawepo-Hashim is a perennial aspirant and convenient mascot for opposition desperation,” Oladejo said.
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“He may parade endorsements in tiny rallies and press statements, but endorsements on photocopied letterheads do not translate to votes.
“In the unlikely event that he somehow emerges as the presidential candidate of the free-falling PDP, a party apparently bankrupt of depth in both human and material resources he will be roundly beaten at the poll.
“That is not bravado; it is political arithmetic. The PDP’s hollow theatrics and recycled claimants will not rescue a party that has for years relied on sentiment and nostalgia rather than competence and delivery.”
Oladejo also faulted Olawepo-Hashim’s criticism of Tinubu’s administration, describing it as “particularly distasteful and unacceptable.”
He insisted that the Tinubu-led government is laying visible and irreversible foundations across infrastructure, education, agriculture, security, and fiscal reforms.
“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,” he said.
Oladejo maintained that Nigerians would not be deceived into abandoning the current progress for “recycled excuses.”
“Nigerians will not be hoodwinked into trading present progress for recycled excuses. To the political jobbers behind this noise: stop insulting the intelligence of Lagos residents and Nigerians,” he said.
He cautioned the opposition against mistaking press statements for performance.
“The opposition should not convert press releases into governance competence,” he added.
“In 2027, voters will choose continuity with a president who has delivered direction and results not the empty spectacle offered by political tourists.
“The South-West will not abandon its own for a project of theatrical ambition without substance,” Oladejo said.