2027: Southeast Strengthens Support For Tinubu
By Wilfred Chukwuma
The Southeast Support Movement for Tinubu 2027 has in unison reiterated their commitment to delivering Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election.
The event which took place in Enugu, at the Golden Royal hotel underlines the unwavering Support, commitment and determination of the group in assuring that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressive Congress (APC) is successfully re-elected in the 2027 presidential election.
The Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah, represented by the Senior Special Adviser (SPA) to the Governor on political matters, Hon Frank Anioma while speaking at the event underlined the importance of the southeast states to rally down their support in unison to President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 general election.
While speaking, he noted that, “Southeast has only 5 states and either before now, these states were scattered in 4 political parties, so it does not give room for representation, politics is about numbers and engagement.
“So, I’m happy that in the Southeast, the remaining Governors, like one of us said earlier, we are looking that they will be able to come together so that Southeast can speak with one voice and have a fair share of the national cake and better representation,” he added.
Anioma while also speaking on the grassroots involvement in the movement, revealed that the movement had an organic support, explaining “when I walked into this place I saw faces from Nsukka, Enugu East, Enugu North, and you can see buses that are packed outside here, these are not hired crowd, these are people from the grassroots and what we have here are representatives of this group from different homes; the coordinators. So as they go home, they castigate the message they have gathered here down to the grassroots.”
He further thanked people of Enugu State for giving their support to the movement, noting that before subsequent progression to the APC, there was engagement, “traditional rulers, religious leaders, local government and councilors, Presidents-General of Town Unions, were all consulted and that is why you have not heard nobody in Enugu State, commissioners or party members say we are not with the Governor, so it is a total movement of Enugu,” he further revealed.
The Director General of the Tinubu Support Group, Umar Tanko Yakasai who thanked the coordinators of the event for the warm reception he received on his arrival to the state, also appreciated the massive support he had witnessed for the course on ground, and hence, buttressed the need for the southeastern states to keep up the energy in the Tinubu’s re-election.
“I believe that this is an opportunity that the southeast might not have realized, but not all the Governors, particularly the working governor of Enugu sates who understands this, that the southeast should go back to their natural politics of belonging to the center,” he stated.
“So, it is easy for the Southeast to reintegrate into the Centre, as always consistently for the past four decades be the central player and gladiator of the national politics, it is easy to comeback.
“We are happy because President Tinubu has led in such a way that he has appeased the mind of everybody in the southeast states, particularly the governors and the people of the southeast is realizing that Mr. President is a President that they should work with, so you can see that Governor Peter Mbah did not move alone, he moved entirely with the Support of the entire citizens and the people at the grassroots of Enugu State” he noted.
He also added “we believe that this message has already been passed to the national that the entire state is with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, so this movement today in the southeast will only consolidate, we do not have fear that the message will get to the grassroots, so it is just a consolidation to work towards success.”
“I can guarantee you that the easy integration of the southeast into the national politics is the gateway to the presidency of Nigeria, the future of the southeast is guaranteed just a matter of time,” he concluded.
In a separate remark, the Chairman of the occasion Dr Chinyeaka Ohaa, represented by Engr Henry Okenwa while thanking the governor and the coordinators of the event, also reemphasized the paradigm shift in the state’s party interest, revealing its positive growth in the future.
“I bring you greetings from my chairman and he has said that I should deliver a message to the directorate and of course, to the people of Enugu State.
“You know, his excellency the governor of Enugu State as we know very well, sir DG, this is the first time Enugu State is witnessing a serious shift in the political landscape and in the infrastructural development in Enugu State” he stated.
While still speaking he further added that “everyday our Governor keeps redefining what politics is in Enugu State.”
Furthermore, in an interview with our spokesperson, the National Chairman of the Support Group for Tinubu, Professor Damian Opata who expressed gratitude to everyone helping in championing the course of the movement also thanked the governor of the state, Peter Mbah, the DG, Umar Tanku Yakasai and others for their supports, respectively.
“I am particularly happy about the sacrifice made by both the Governor, the DG and others that came to embrace this function, and I am more than glad that it was a huge success and we can only say this was the beginning.
“We are going to work harder, we are going to deliver more and we are going to move as they said, down to the roots, down to wards and do the same to the polling units, we are going to do that, and this is just the beginning, that is why we said, this is a working group, it is not just a rally, it is a working group and we are going to continue to work,” he said.
“We thank the people that came to support us, and we pray that when we move into the wards and other places, they will continue to give us the same support,” he added.
The event had in its number prominent stakeholders in the society, coordinators, party leaders, woman leaders who among them were Chairman, Board of Trustees (BOT), Southeast Movement for Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Dr. Amaechi Sadiq Okorie, Chairman of State Coordinators for Tinubu Support group, Engr. Vita Abbah, Enugu State Coordinator of Southeast Tinubu Support Group, Dan Agbaranze Damian, among others.
The highlight of the event was the inauguration of an interim leadership of the movement to champion the course at hand.
EDITOR
Sam Udekwe is a journalist working in the News and Current Affairs department, Enugu State Broadcasting Service (ESBS) Enugu. He is well trained in all genres of journalistic venture.
Mr Sam read Mass Communication, graduating all with Distinction in National Diploma, Higher National Diploma and Postgraduate Diploma at IMT, Enugu and Madonna University, Okija, Anambra state, as well as M.Sc Mass Communication with Second Class(Upper Division) at National Open University of Nigeria.
He is the immediate past NUJ Chairman, Enugu state.
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