Tinubu not focusing on re-election in 2027 – Presidency

 

The Presidency has played down the talks over the re-election of President Bola Tinubu in 2027.

According to it, the president is not focused on the 2027 presidential ambition.

This is coming amid the planned formation of a political coalition to sack Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) from presidency in 2027.

Special Adviser to the president on Media and Public Communications, Sunday Dare, who made the statement on his verified X handle, described the ongoing talks about 2027 generally polls as unnecessary heating up the polity.

Dare explained that Tinubu's focus is on his economic policies that would improve the lives of Nigerians.

He added that the president is concerned with the long-term impact of his policies than political manoeuvring ahead of 2027.

“We’ve seen our foreign reserves go up. We’ve seen inflation come down. We’ve seen our trade surplus go up. We’ve seen exports go up and imports drop.

“We’ve seen the investments that have been attracted—over $50 billion. We are seeing prices dropping. We have clear data, and you have a President that is clearly in the driver’s seat, and he has stayed the course of the decisions he has taken.

“And I think that the next election is not really in his view right now. It’s how to make sure that at the end of his first term, he can sit back and say, ‘I have impacted the lives of Nigerians. I have turned this economy around.’”

Recall that the Former governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State and other political bigwigs from both the ruling APC and opposition parties had recently defected to the Social Democratic Party (SDP), amid moves to intensify the birth of the coalition.