APC Chair: More governors will join Tinubu ahead of 2027

Nentawe Yilwatda, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says more governors will defect to the ruling party ahead of the 2027 general election to support President Bola Tinubu’s reelection bid.

Yilwatda spoke at the APC Bayelsa chapter’s 12th expanded stakeholders meeting in Yenagoa on Tuesday. He was represented by Emma Eneukwu, deputy national chairman (south).

The APC chairman said Tinubu’s governance style has continued to attract governors, senators, and other politicians from opposition parties to the ruling party.

“Our doors are still open, more governors are still moving in to our party, more personalities are still moving in, senators, members of the house of representatives, because of the calibre, integrity and the output of the person we make president,” he said.

“It is expected that opposition will speak and rise, but it is well assured that we have a product that even a blind man in this country will support overwhelmingly.”

Yilwatda praised governors in the south-south for abandoning their parties to join the APC, adding that their decision was based on confidence in the president’s leadership.

He urged APC members in Bayelsa to remain united to ensure the party secures victory in the next general election.

Also speaking, Timipre Sylva, former Bayelsa governor, said the APC in the state is united and ready for the 2027 elections.