{"id":10028,"date":"2026-11-05T14:31:41","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T14:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/tinubu-apc-targets-800000-votes-in-ekiti-says-north-will-deliver\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T14:31:41","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T14:31:41","slug":"tinubu-apc-targets-800000-votes-in-ekiti-says-north-will-deliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/tinubu-apc-targets-800000-votes-in-ekiti-says-north-will-deliver\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu: APC targets 800,000 votes in Ekiti, says North will deliver"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Tinubu:<\/p>\n

By Omeiza Ajayi, Tinubu<\/p>\n

The ruling All Progressives Congress APC has set a target of 800,000 votes in Ekiti State for President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election, with the Director General of its Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), Senator Abdul\u2019aziz Yari, assuring that Northern Nigeria \u201cis ready for Asiwaju 2027\u201d and \u201cis going to deliver him from A to Z.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yari spoke on Thursday at the party\u2019s campaign rally in Ado-Ekiti, where he asked the state to improve on the roughly 80 per cent it gave Tinubu in 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cOut of 1,080,000 votes, and PVC collected over 900,000, this is my request, and by extension, of course, of the President to you. We are looking for 800,000 votes, representing about 90 per cent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He told the gathering that the state governor had earlier given a breakdown of the Tinubu administration\u2019s achievements and said the president \u201cdid not forget Ekiti\u201d, citing schools, universities, roads, education support for youths and women empowerment.<\/p>\n

Yari said the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, the Allied Peoples Movement APM and the Social Democratic Party SDP who contested the last governorship election against the governor were at the rally \u201cto show solidarity, their togetherness with the Governor when it comes to Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that the reward for a heavy turnout would be more federal presence in the state. \u201cThe President promised to do more for the Ekiti people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Turning to the North, Yari said, \u201cWe in Northern Nigeria, Bola, are more of us than you in Ekiti, than you in Ondo, than you in Oyo, than you in Osun, than you in Lagos. Bola Ahmed supported our children and supported our people to become number one citizens in this country up to three times. So, we in the north, we are ready for Asiwaju 2027, and we are going to deliver him from A to Z.\u201d<\/p>\n

The PCC boss also challenged the opposition to say what it would do differently. \u201cWhat are they going to do differently than what we are having today? Government brings down the inflation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we promised Nigerians, we are going to campaign with our numbers, with what we have done for Nigerians. We are not AI product people. We are saying the truth, and we are asking to go and take that truth.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the numbers are there, ranging from inflation, ranging from exchange rates, and ranging from balance of trade. All of them are there for anyone to go and take. If they have answers, we are waiting for their answers,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The National Chairman of the APC, Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, said his role at the rally was to present the party\u2019s candidates, \u201cstarting from the President down to the National Assembly to the House of Assembly candidates in Ekiti state.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yilwatda pointed to road projects in the state, some of them ongoing and some completed by the president. \u201cWe have a road from here to Akure constructed by Mr President. Our governor was elected on the basis of his performance. So also was the President,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He described Tinubu as \u201ca performer\u201d and \u201ca reformer\u201d, saying the president had reformed the tax system in favour of the poor. \u201cToday, all those small \u2018mama puts\u2019 in the market, people who earn less than 100 million Naira per annum, don\u2019t pay tax. Freeing legitimate money being earned by the lowest people in society,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The APC chairman said parents from poor homes would vote for the president because their children now have access to education through the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFund). \u201cEvery month, they are giving 20,000 Naira as a maintenance and upkeep fee. And that has helped the child of the poorest of the poor in the society to go to school,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He urged Ekiti voters to turn out in large numbers for the National Assembly candidates, led by Senator Opeyemi, on January 16, and to return all House of Assembly members in February.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, I present President Bola Ahmed Tinubu again for a second term. People of Ekiti, come out in your numbers on the 16th of January,\u201d Yilwatda said.<\/p>\n

END<\/p>\n

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