The South West Agenda for Asiwaju, a foremost support group for President Bola Tinubu, says the president’s victory in 2027 general elections will be the greatest landslide in the history of the fourth republic.
Its National Chairman, Senator Dayo Adeyeye, said this during a news conference to unveil SWAGA 2.0, the group’s mobilisation strategy, on Tuesday in Lagos.
In the build up to 2023 general elections, toured the length and breadth of South-West, selling Tinubu presidency to the people of the region.
Adeyeye, also the Chairman of the Board of Nigeria Port Authority and former Minister of State for Works, described it as a mere myth that the North would not support Tinubu’s re-election in 2027.
He said: “We are not afraid; it is going to be the greatest landslide victory in the history of the republic even in northern Nigeria.
“Nigerians should not allow those playing to the gallery to deceive them, they couldn’t do anything in their states when they were in government.
“We have not been disappointed, honestly. Tinubu has performed even beyond our expectations because we had thought he would succumb to political pressure and would not be able to carry out his campaign promises.
“He has confronted everything head-on and he is doing it. Tinubu is a courageous leader. He doesn’t think like a politician, but like a statesman who thinks about the next generation.”
Speaking on narrative that the North would not support Tinubu’s reelection, Adeyeye said that from the first republic till date, the North had never voted the same way for the same political party.
Adeyeye said that northern leaders were happy with Tinubu’s giant strides and would support him in 2027.
“We must be wary of the myth that Northerners will not vote. The North has at least three geo-political zones. They don’t always go the same way all the time.
“The North has never voted as a monolith. The North is not one political entity. Every party decides its own political fate.
“The interests are not the same. Different parts of the North belong to different political parties. I laugh when people say the North will not vote for Tinubu in 2027, there is a diversity of interests in the North.”