A former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chibudom Nwuche, has said no coalition can stop President Bola Tinubu from being re-elected in 2027.
Nwuche stated this during a stakeholders’ meeting of Ahoada East and Ahoada West local government areas of Rivers State in support of President Bola Tinubu and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Chief Nyesom Wike, held in Ochigbo community in Rivers State.
Recall that the coalition, African Democratic Congress, which has the likes of former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, and the former Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, had vowed to wrest Power from Tinubu in the next general elections.
But Nwuche said the coalition poses no threat to the incumbent President’s re-election bid.
Nwuche, who brought the stakeholders, including members of the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress under the Team Rivers for Tinubu, also thanked the President and Wike for his appointment as the Chairman of the South-South Development Commission.
Speaking to the elders, women, youths and party leaders from the two local government areas, Nwuche said President Tinubu deserved the support of all stakeholders for the confidence he reposed in Wike and his love for Rivers people and the Niger Delta region.
He described Wike as an excellent performer, saying the former Rivers Governor had transformed Abuja the same way he did in Rivers during his administration as a governor.
“The FCT is now wearing a new look with many projects completed and ongoing. Even those who do not like the government can’t deny the fact that the government of President Tinubu with Chief Nyesom Wike is delivering the dividends of democracy and is performing spectacularly well,” Nwuche said.
He told the people not to be cajoled by the coalition leaders, whom he described as people united by their hunger for power without any genuine intentions for development.
Nwuche said, “President Tinubu came and, in his first tenure, removed subsidies, which they could not do when they were in power. With the bold reforms and economic transformation of President Tinubu, the governors have a lot of money at their disposal to pay salaries and execute projects. The President inherited tough economic challenges, but he is tackling them”.
Nwuche wondered why the coalition leaders were showing desperate hunger for power, a few years after leaving their various political positions and asked them to try again after Tinubu’s eight years in office.
He said, “These people just left power, but they are already hungry for it again. Some of us left our positions about 20 years ago, but are still supporting genuine courses. We are not doing any coalition of power-grabbing with them. They can’t stop Tinubu; they cannot.
“We are going to support Tinubu’s second term. It is the turn of the South to do eight years, and President Tinubu is doing a wonderful job of it.”
