The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, has stated that the numerous infrastructure projects being executed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu across the southeastern states will give him a significant advantage over other presidential candidates in the 2027 general election.
Speaking during a mega rally at the Abakaliki Township Stadium, organized by the Ebonyi State Government and the Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi, Yilwatda noted that no previous president has accomplished as much for the region as President Tinubu. He expressed confidence that Tinubu would not only win in Ebonyi State but across the entire South East.
Ebonyi State Governor, Francis Nwifuru, also declared that the opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) has no place in the state in the upcoming election. He highlighted several key projects, including the dualization of the Enugu/Abakaliki road, the Enugu/Onitsha road, the Enugu/Okigwe/Aba to Port-Harcourt road, and the Calabar super highway connecting Ebonyi, Benue, Nasarawa, and Abuja. He noted that the projects are too numerous to count.
Governor Nwifuru thanked his counterparts from Anambra, Imo, and Enugu states for their attendance and support for the President's re-election. The APC National Chairman dismissed growing insinuations that Ebonyi State has been conceded to the PDP in the 2027 general election.
"We will return President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Francis Nwifuru as the Governor of Ebonyi State come 2027. We want to return all the APC Senators, all the House of Representatives, and all the House Assembly candidates in 2027. Nobody has conceded Ebonyi to PDP. Therefore, there is no vacancy in Ebonyi State. Ebonyi PDP has no place, and there is no vacancy at all in the Government House in Ebonyi come 2027," Yilwatda declared.
He commended the people of Ebonyi for their support for Tinubu and urged them to return him in the presidential election to repay him for the infrastructural transformation and human capital development he has brought to the state and the entire South East.
Governor Nwifuru reiterated that Ebonyi has no other presidential candidate for the 2027 general election other than President Tinubu. He declared that the state is entirely an APC state and vowed that the party would deliver the President. He said Tinubu has paid a price for the state and deserves its total support, particularly for appointing Senator David Umahi as Minister of Works, who has performed creditably.
"Ebonyi has no other presidential candidate other than President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and we will return him in the presidential election. We are standing here today to tell the whole world, especially those who have used Mr. President's name to orchestrate division and confusion in this great state, to know that we have only one party, and that is APC. This statement came out because some people are going around saying that they have discussed with Mr. President and he has given Ebonyi to PDP, and they are saying that Chief Nyesom Wike is their leader and that Wike said the President has given Ebonyi to him. Ebonyi is not for sale. We are only holding ourselves because the people are with us. Nobody should push us because we have all it takes to consume whoever is trying us, we have all it takes to destroy whoever is trying us. We want to tell Mr. President that he has paid a price to deserve our votes. He gave us what we have never had in eastern Nigeria; he gave us the Minister of Works. And this Minister of Works is not sitting down; he is a working Minister of Works," Nwifuru stated.
Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi, said President Tinubu has done what no other president has done in Ebonyi State and the entire South East by executing numerous projects across the state and the zone. "Ebonyi State is a one-party state under Governor Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru. We are not going to make another mistake like the past; the three were accidents of history. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has done a lot not just for Ebonyi State but for the entire South East and other geopolitical zones," he said.
