APGA Adopts Tinubu as 2027 Candidate, Targets 50% Votes

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has adopted President Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as its preferred candidate for the 2027 general election.

Anambra State Governor and APGA national leader, Chukwuma Soludo, announced the decision on Friday in Awka during the inauguration of the party’s national campaign for the 2027 elections.

Soludo said the decision was informed by Tinubu’s perceived commitment to the South-East, particularly Anambra State, as well as his longstanding political relationship with APGA.

According to the governor, Tinubu demonstrated support for the people of Anambra, including appointing several indigenes of the state to strategic positions during his tenure as governor of Lagos State.

“APGA has no presidential candidate for the 2027 general elections and will, therefore, adopt President Tinubu as its preferred candidate,” Soludo said.

He declared that the party had formally endorsed the president, describing the decision as consistent with APGA’s political tradition of supporting candidates of the ruling party in previous presidential elections.

“Today, we adopt the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, as our candidate,” he said.

“APGA had adopted the presidential candidate of the ruling party in previous elections; therefore, the party’s decision to support Tinubu in the 2027 general elections is a continuation of that political arrangement.”

Soludo recalled that Anambra delivered approximately 5,000 votes for Tinubu during the 2023 presidential election but said the president had continued to address some of the challenges confronting the state and the South-East.

He urged residents of Anambra to support Tinubu in the forthcoming election, arguing that backing the president would strengthen the region’s ability to negotiate development priorities with the federal government.

“We need to vote for him in order to sit with the government at the centre and negotiate for the development of the South-East and Anambra,” the governor said.

Soludo also disclosed that APGA was targeting a significant electoral contribution to Tinubu’s re-election bid.

“We are targeting 50 percent for the president,” he said.

The governor had earlier, in March, urged South-East residents not to waste their votes on alternative presidential candidates, advocating support for Tinubu.

He also argued that while the political future of the Igbo remained important, the region was yet to be in a position to produce Nigeria’s president.