- Insists Nigeria’s unity must not be compromised
From Romanus Ugwu, Abuja
Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Yekini Nabena, has declared that no evil plot can stop President Bola Tinubu’s re-election in the 2027 presidential election.
Nabena insisted that if former president Muhammadu Buhari could complete his eight-year term in office, no mega or merger plot would stop President Tinubu from completing two tenures.
There have been discussions about a merger into a mega party among the opposition parties and some prominent members of the APC in recent times.
While reacting to the development through a statement he signed on Tuesday in Abuja, Nabena expressed confidence that the merger will not pose any threat to Tinubu’s second-term, ambition.
The former party’s spokesperson also warned that no political coup in the National Assembly will remove the incumbent President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio.
On Tinubu’s future, Nabena wrote; “The 2027 presidential election will come and go but the President will remain in the South and President Bola Tinubu, by God’s grace, will continue his good job.”
According to the loquacious Bayelsa-born APC chieftain, the South and the North must support President Tinubu to succeed in his Renewed Hope Agenda because; “the country belongs to all of us and Nigeria is one, not only on paper or mouth but in reality. Nigeria’s unity must not be compromised.”
“If former President Buhari could complete his eight years in office, by the grace of God Almighty the incumbent, President Tinubu will do the same, not even the talk of mega party or merger can stop him. The South must also complete the 8-year political arrangement and President Bola Tinubu will do that for the South.
“The South will not fight each other again for other regions to benefit, the era of division in the Southen Nigeria is gone for good. The Almighty God will perfect President Tinubu’s health and grant him wisdom to take the country to the promised land.
“The same goes for the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio. By God’s grace, he will also complete his term as the head of the National Assembly in grand style, no threat, no blackmail or political machination will do otherwise.
“It must be placed on record that we Nigerians from the South are satisfied with the level of representation we are getting from our distinguished representatives in the National Assembly and we have passed a vote of confidence on them for standing tall,” the statement read.
Reacting to the recent move by some prominent APC leaders hobnobbing with some opposition figures to float a mega party or form a merger, Nabena said: “Again, we must also tell the plotters of mega party and those ones thinking of merger that we are not afraid of any.
“The 2027 presidential election will come and go but the President will remain in the South and President Bola Tinubu, by God’s grace, will continue his good job. I am so much hopeful that even before the next election, the results of the ongoing reforms will be evidenced even to the blind, and those plotting mega party or merger will not have an option other than to accept defeat before the election.
“For now, former governor Nasir El-Rufai can go ahead with his idea of mega party but we are also waiting for them. A state Malam El-Rufai left as a governor less than a year ago can no longer pay salaries.
“So, some of these remarkable marks shall speak against them at the appropriate time but I think the time has come for the evil ones to be exposed and I believe the Almighty God will expose them more and He will fight our fight and definitely victory shall be ours,” the statement read.