2027: Bamidele Assures Tinubu of South-West Votes, Commends Key Achievements

Leader of the Senate, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, has described the emergence of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a development that would deepen and fine-tune ongoing reforms towards making Nigeria a prosperous nation.

Bamidele stated this in a congratulatory message issued by his Directorate of Media and Public Affairs in Abuja on Monday, where he highlighted several achievements and reforms recorded by the president within the last three years.
President Tinubu secured a landslide victory in the APC presidential primary conducted nationwide on Saturday, polling 10.99 million votes, while his sole challenger, Mr. Stanley Osifo, garnered 16,503 votes.
In the statement, Bamidele celebrated Tinubu’s emergence as the APC presidential flag bearer, noting that the president had earned overwhelming support from party members through the 10.99 million votes secured during the exercise.
He said: “I am therefore confident that your candidacy will help to fine-tune ongoing reforms across all sectors of the country and make us a prosperous nation. Your track records show that you are an agent of change.
“You became President when Nigeria’s economy was at its lowest ebb. You didn’t shy away from taking tough decisions. Rather, you prioritised critical actions to secure future generations.
“You took the bull by the horns and confronted the problems head-on. This decisiveness has sparked economic progress in virtually every facet of our national life. No state is borrowing just to pay salaries any longer.
“At the same time, you have turned the country into a construction site, with the ongoing 750-kilometre Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road Project, the 1,068-kilometre Sokoto–Badagry Highway, and other strategic road infrastructure projects that will connect different cities in the North and South.
“Your administration has introduced the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) to boost access to tertiary institutions across the federation. In three years, no fewer than 1,197,626 students have registered with NELFUND, 3,138,390 loan applications received, 1,613,132 institutional loans processed and 1,525,528 upkeep loans paid. At least N242 billion has been disbursed to tertiary students since the scheme commenced.
“From 1.273 million barrels per day in April 2023, President Tinubu has provided strategic leadership that increased oil production to 1.71 million barrels per day. Also, according to the Central Bank of Nigeria, the reserves increased from $35.09 billion in June 2023 to $49.49 billion in May 2026.
“Under his administration, Nigeria’s economy has consistently grown, first by 2.74 per cent in 2023, 3.4 per cent in 2024, 3.9 per cent in 2025 and 3.89 per cent in the first quarter of 2026. So much has been done to reform and transform Nigeria. A lot more will still be done with the emergence of President Tinubu as the standard bearer of the APC.”
Bamidele further assured the president of massive electoral support from the South-West geopolitical zone ahead of the 2027 general election.
“In my capacity as the Leader of the Senate, I assure you of at least 10 million votes from the South-West geopolitical zone of the country. The machinery to deliver those votes is already in motion,” he said.