President Bola Tinubu has promised to deliver six per cent annual economic growth and recruit 78,000 additional security personnel –28,000 soldiers and 50,000 police officers, a sweeping plan to strengthen the security architecture and combat terrorism, banditry and kidnapping, according to the All Progressives Congress (APC) 2027 presidential election manifesto.
The 109-page document, titled From Reform to Prosperity Agenda 2027–2031, also pledges to build 200,000 affordable homes, expand electricity generation towards 10,000 megawatts, and sustain a downward trend in inflation and food prices by 2031.
The APC is scheduled to unveil the manifesto on Tuesday at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja.
The security pledges form the centrepiece of the manifesto.
Tinubu said a second term would complete the establishment and equipping of four new Army divisions in Makurdi, Ilorin, Jalingo and Benin City, while recruiting and training the 28,000 additional troops already approved.
The plan also calls for deploying 50,000 newly recruited police officers and expanding tactical training to achieve a police-to-citizen ratio of 1:400.
The manifesto proposes body cameras, digital record systems, geographic mapping tools, emergency-response channels and modern forensic facilities as part of a nationwide police-reform programme.
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) would recruit 30,150 personnel to take over static security duties currently performed by the police, freeing officers for patrols in residential areas, commercial centres, schools and transit corridors.
The government would also work with governors and federal and state lawmakers to create a legal structure for accountable state and community policing.
The manifesto commits the administration to intelligence-led operations against insurgent and kidnapping networks, with independent verification of reported operational outcomes intended to build public trust.
It also proposes expanded border surveillance, including electronic monitoring of all mapped border areas, and the deployment of Forest Guards, Agro-Rangers and Mining Marshals to protect farms, grazing routes, forests and mineral sites.
Tinubu pledged to strengthen protection for schools, markets, places of worship and transport corridors, while expanding rehabilitation and deradicalisation programmes for former combatants.
The plan includes real-time surveillance of critical infrastructure, such as energy pipelines, power grids, railways and health facilities.
On the economy, the manifesto promises to accelerate annual growth to six per cent, halve youth unemployment and extend credit to half of all economically active Nigerians.
It also pledges to expand domestic food production, storage and processing, halve post-harvest losses and improve the movement of goods between states.
The housing pledge would be delivered through the Tinubu Mass Social Housing Scheme, mortgage financing and partnerships with licensed private developers.
The administration says it would strengthen regulations to protect property buyers.
In healthcare, the manifesto targets functional primary healthcare centres in at least 90 per cent of facilities nationwide, up from 53 per cent today, and seeks to raise active health-insurance coverage from more than 23 million enrollees to 40 per cent of the population.
It also aims to reduce out-of-pocket health spending from 71 per cent to below 50 per cent of total health expenditure.
The education plan calls for recruiting and training 20,000 additional teachers, prioritising female educators and underserved rural communities.
It also pledges to halve the number of out-of-school children, expand technical and digital training, and scale up the NELFUND student-loan programme.
Tinubu described the agenda as an effort to convert the economic reforms of his first term into visible gains for households, farms, markets and workplaces.
“Prosperity,” the manifesto says, would extend to “homes, markets, farms and workplaces across the country.”
