2027: Southern Legislators Forum Adopts Tinubu As Sole Candidate

The Forum of Former Southern Legislators, connected Saturday successful Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, adopted President Bola Tinubu arsenic its sole statesmanlike campaigner for the 2027 election.

The forum, nether the chairmanship of Senator Ken Nnamani, made their presumption known successful a communique issued astatine the extremity of its Summit of Former Legislators 2025, held successful the Gateway State.

Signed by the president of the Communique Drafting Committee, Hon. R. Osagie; president of the Former Legislators’ Southern Caucus, Hon. Adeyemi Oluwole and the secretary, Hon. Israel Sunny Goli, the ex-lawmakers commended the innovative reforms of President Tinubu-led Federal Government and declared that they would ever align themselves with those things that question to beforehand the unity, bid and prosperity of the country.

The ex-legislators listed those inaugural reforms to include, among others, the constitution of Regional Development Commissions, Local Government Autonomy, Student Loans Scheme and Deregulation of the Electricity Sector, and called for greater collaboration of authorities governments and enactment of citizens alike to beryllium capable to harvest the large potentials of the reforms.

The communique read, “That arsenic a body, we commend the patriotic courageousness of our colleagues of the Northern Caucus successful calling for the South to implicit their tenure of the enactment of the country.

“We affirm that it is the crook of the South to implicit its tenure. We posit that it is successful the champion involvement of the South and the federation that the incumbent, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, completes the tenure of the South.

“Accordingly, we follow him arsenic the sole campaigner of the South. We telephone connected the South to enactment the North successful 2031 to instrumentality up their tenure for the enactment of our beloved country.”

The forum called connected citizens to prosecute this people towards promoting nationalist unity and the instauration of nation-building.

In their goodwill remarks, the trio of Senator Nnamani, erstwhile speakers of the House of Representatives (HoR), Yakubu Dogara and Patricia Olubunmi Etteh, applauded President Tinubu for his steadfast leadership, committedness to nationalist improvement and dedication to inclusive governance.

Earlier, the nationalist coordinator of National Forum of Former Legislators, Hon. Raphael Nnanna Igbokwe, called for greater co-operation from authorities governments crossed the state to complement Federal Government’s actions towards ensuring that those innovative reforms are sustained.

Speaking connected the value of the summit, themed, “National Unity, Bedrock of Nation Building,” Igbokwe expressed optimism that the acme would spend the lawmakers the accidental to emergence and germinate outcomes that would further unite the citizens much “and beforehand the peace, unity and prosperity of Nigeria.”

In his keynote address, the convener of the forum and President Tinubu’s Chief of Staff (CoS), Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, said the clarity of President Tinubu’s imaginativeness formed the ground for which his medication has acceptable retired from time 1 to tackle the astir hard reforms.

He explained that the “will to execute buttons”, which those who had ruled earlier President Tinubu refused to activate, were conscionable the betterment initiatives which the president is bringing to carnivore connected the nation.

“Today, the Federal Government of Nigeria is nary longer paying inflated subsidy claims that payment lone a tiny number of our citizens. Every Nigerian kid contiguous is guaranteed a tertiary acquisition courtesy of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND).”