President Bola Tinubu will win re-election in 2027 by a wider margin than he secured in 2023, his Policy Communication Adviser, Daniel Bwala, has said.
Bwala argued that massive support from Governors, especially 31 of them currently on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) platform, and a weakening opposition would strengthen the president’s position.
The presidential spokesman, in a telephone interview with our correspondent, said Governors backing Tinubu would bring political networks, resources and influence to his re-election campaign.
“The margin of gap that President Bola Tinubu will give each and every one of these candidates will be so much that you won’t believe it,” Bwala said.
The forecast reflects the confidence of the President’s camp as political parties prepare for the next general election.
Bwala cited changes in political alliances and what he described as the benefits of Tinubu’s policies.
Tinubu won the 2023 presidential election with 8,794,726 votes, finishing about 1.81 million votes ahead of the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) Atiku Abubakar and 2.69 million ahead of the Labour Party’s (LP) Peter Obi.
Bwala argued that the president would enter the next contest with broader support than he had in 2023.
Several Governors elected on opposition platforms have since defected to the ruling APC.
Governors, he said, could play a decisive role by deploying the political organisations that helped them win their own elections.
“These people say we are putting our goodwill, our resources, our structure, and our support for the President,” Bwala said.
He contrasted that support with what he described as the obstacles Tinubu faced before the 2023 vote.
Bwala alleged that some figures in the governing party had not fully supported Tinubu and that policies introduced shortly before the election had hurt his candidacy.
“The odds were against him, even at the primary level,” he said.
Bwala also contended that Tinubu’s principal opponents in 2023 had lost important supporters.
He claimed that Abubakar had lost close to a quarter of the key figures around him and that Obi had lost three-quarters of the people central to his previous campaign.
NewsQuest reports that the presidential aide, however, did not provide supporting figures or explain how those estimates were calculated.
According to Bwala, Governors who supported Atiku in the last presidential election would not back him in the next contest, while some former Obi supporters had moved to other political camps.
The presidential aide also defended the administration’s economic policies, saying they were improving conditions for people in the informal economy, including women.
He argued that those benefits would reinforce the political support Tinubu had gained since taking office.
Bwala dismissed the opposition’s campaign rhetoric as defeatist, suggesting that its warnings about Nigeria’s future were inconsistent with its claims of electoral strength.
