2027 Election: Presidency Mentions Number of Votes Tinubu Would Get in South East
- Special adviser to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on policy communication, Daniel Bwala, boasted that his principal will secure two million votes in the south-east region in the 2027 election
- Barrister Bwala said Tinubu could secure up to two million votes from the region, a figure he claimed would be at least four or six times higher than what the president got in 2023
- Bwala argued that the recent defections of southern governors to the APC and the endorsement by governors in opposition parties would push the president’s numbers and popularity in the south-east
Legit.ng journalist Ridwan Adeola Yusuf has over 9 years of experience covering politics, elections, and governance in Nigeria.
FCT, Abuja - Barrister Daniel Bwala, special adviser to President Bola Tinubu on policy communication has said his principal will get up to two million votes in the south-east in the 2027 election.
Bwala spoke in a video interview on Channels Television on Wednesday night, August 13, monitored by Legit.ng.
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The presidential spokesperson said:
"You see the southeast, I guarantee you President Bola Tinubu is going to get more than four times, if not six times the value of the votes he got in 2023. He will get up to 2 million."
The video can be watched below:
Tinubu's poor outing in southeast in 2023
Legit.ng recalls that while his opponents picked states in the south-west, Tinubu got an unimpressive one percent of his total votes from the south-east in the 2023 election.
He got a total of 127,605 votes from the five states and did not score 25 percent in any of them.
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South-east’s preference for Peter Obi is unmissable: no other candidate met the 25 percent in any of the five states: Abia, Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi, and Imo.
The zone used to be won by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). 2023 was the first election since 1999 that the PDP did not win the zone.
Tinubu got his lowest votes nationwide from Enugu state, 4,772, followed by Anambra (5,111), Abia (8,914), Ebonyi (42,402), Bayelsa (42,572) and Imo (66,406).
Although Bayelsa gave him only 42,572 votes, he met the 25 percent requirement there. Meanwhile, Tinubu came second in Ebonyi and Imo, two states controlled by the All Progressives Congress (APC).
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Tinubu pinpoints what Nigeria must review
Earlier, Legit.ng reported that amid economic challenges, President Tinubu stressed the critical role of savings in catalysing Nigeria's investment and growth.
Speaking in Abuja during the federal executive council (FEC) meeting, President Tinubu disclosed that currently, public investment as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) "stands at a low 5.0 percent, largely due to insufficient public savings."
Tinubu pointed out that Nigeria must immediately review and optimise its savings through enhancing spending efficiency, and reviewing deductions from the federation account.
Source: Legit.ng
