Ogun West Assembly for Tinubu has promised to support President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s re-election bid in 2027.
It pledged to mobilise at least 250,000 votes for him in the zone.
The body of political leaders and stakeholders from Ogun West Senatorial District said Tinubu had laid a sustainable foundation for national development through “bold reforms and strategic leadership” in the last 27 months.
The group, in an advertorial published in national dailies last weekend, said the President had rescued the country from the brink of collapse.
It said Tinubu inherited “a country at a tipping point of irreversible damage”, but had since embarked on far-reaching reforms that were stabilising the economy.
“The President took strong decisions despite public outcry threatening to derail necessary reorganisations needed to reposition Nigeria’s economy, infrastructure and governance system,” the statement said.
The group highlighted the removal of fuel subsidy, unification of exchange rates, reduction in debt servicing and record-breaking growth in the capital market as some of Tinubu’s key achievements.
It also cited Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, modernisation of Apapa and Lekki ports, student loan schemes, social cash transfers and improvements in primary health care centres as evidence of the administration’s progress.
The group said in term of economy, Nigeria’s naira had become “one of the world’s best-performing currencies,” with Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth, a 66 per cent rise in capital inflows and a trade surplus of $14.3 billion recorded under Tinubu.
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The group lauded the President for ending what it described as Ogun West’s “decades-long federal neglect” by appointing Dr. Iziaq Salako into the Federal Executive Council and facilitating several other appointments for indigenes of the zone.
It also hailed the President’s support for Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola and House of Representatives members from the district, who, it said, had attracted “unprecedented federal interventions.”
Projects cited included Sokoto-Badagry Superhighway, Ilara-Ilase Road and establishment of a Federal University of Technology in Ilaro.
The Ogun West Assembly group maintained that Tinubu deserved a second term on merit, describing his leadership as courageous and visionary.
“He needs a second term to consolidate the gains in economic stability, infrastructure, industrialisation and social welfare,” the group declared.
In 2023, Ogun West delivered 113,167 votes for Tinubu, representing 33 per cent of the APC’s tally in Ogun State.
The group said its new target of 250,000 votes in 2027 would be a reward for the “unprecedented attention” Tinubu had given to the district.
The statement was signed by Ogun West Assembly Chairman, Balogun Jubril Elegbede; Secretary, Segun Ojolowo-Ojuko; and other leaders, including Bolaji Adeniji, Wale Junaid, Wole Elegbede, Tayo Oyekanmi, Chief Babatunde Okewole and Princess Feyikemi Egbeyemi.