By Our Reporter
House of Representatives member, Hon. Adesola Adedayo representing Apapa Federal Constituency of Lagos State, on Tuesday projected that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu would make a clean sweep of South West votes in January 2027 presidential election.
Adedayo was elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Speaking ahead of the South West zonal congress of the party slated for Wednesday, Adedayo, who is the Vice Chairman, House of Representatives’ Committee on Health Institutions, disclosed that the Political Action Committees (PACs) leading the re-election efforts of the president, “are penetrating rural areas where social media might not be popular or available but the people are getting the Renewed Hope message of Mr. President through us, his foot soldiers."
The two-term Chairman of Apapa-Iganmu LCDA, is a statutory delegate to the congress taking place in Lagos.
Adedayo, a medical doctor, said most of them supporting the president from the South West, are taking their cue from the South East which mobilized rural dwellers in their numbers for the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, in the 2023 Election, leading to a clean sweep of the zone by Obi.
The lawmaker, who said he is into continuous mobilization for President Tinubu especially in rural areas of his federal constituency, noted that electoral victory begins with mobilizing potential voters to register which he said was richly done by his group and many others, rooting for the president’s re-election, when the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) rolled out the exercise.
Hon. Adedayo praised the turnout of his constituents, as well as in the six states of the South West, which he said was indicative of a voting bloc readying for a mass movement.
"In 2023, Asiwaju (President Bola Tinubu) secured a pan-Nigeria mandate and nothing would be different in that regard in 2027. The mandate will still be national in scope. But the numbers would be different this time, due to the efforts being put into carrying the Renewed Hope message and dividends to the rural areas.
"In the South West, we are penetrating everywhere to sell the president’s achievements, just as our counterparts in other parts of the country are doing to ensure a seamless re-election process and success.
"If you do a data analysis of the 2023 election, you will notice no leading candidate enjoyed what I will call home advantage like Mr. Peter Obi of Labour Party. His own went all out for him in the South East, yet he still painfully won Lagos, the home base of the president.
"That opened everybody’s eyes to what is on the ground and two weeks later, we took Lagos back by winning the governorship and massively, the State Assembly.
"Something is a mistake when you don’t learn from it; it becomes a valuable lesson even if painful, if useful lessons are drawn from that supposed negative happenstance. Useful lessons have been learnt and 2027 will show that pain can be a great gain," the lawmaker stated.
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