APGA Launches 2027 Campaign, Formally Adopts Tinubu as Presidential Candidate

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has officially flagged off its national campaign for the 2027 general elections and adopted President Bola Tinubu as its preferred presidential candidate.

The decision was announced on Friday by the party’s National Leader and Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, during a campaign rally held at Dr Alex Ekwueme Square in Awka.

At the event, APGA also presented campaign flags to 44 candidates contesting Senate, House of Representatives and Anambra State House of Assembly seats.

Candidates from other states who attended the rally also received their party flags and were urged to begin grassroots mobilisation for themselves and Tinubu ahead of the elections.

Soludo called on party members to take the President’s re-election campaign seriously, arguing that delivering electoral support for him would strengthen APGA’s position to make demands on behalf of its members and supporters during his second term.

He directed the candidates to embark on house-to-house, door-to-door and market-to-market campaigns to mobilise voters ahead of the presidential election scheduled for January 16, 2027, and the legislative elections slated for February 6.

The governor said APGA lawmakers at the National Assembly were already working in partnership with their APC counterparts and urged the party’s candidates to join the same legislative caucus if elected.

Soludo explained that the party’s decision to support Tinubu was consistent with its previous presidential endorsements of former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011 and 2015.

“We are today officially adopting President Bola Tinubu as our candidate for the presidential election. In 2011, APGA adopted President Goodluck Jonathan as our candidate. In 2015, we also adopted Jonathan again, and we are doing it again in 2027 because progressives are working together,” he said.

The Anambra governor stressed that APGA was not merely supporting the ruling APC but was specifically backing Tinubu, whom he said had demonstrated concern for the South-East and the Igbo people.

He cited appointments of people from Anambra State into positions in Lagos and the Federal Government, as well as infrastructure projects in the South-East, as reasons for the party’s decision.

Soludo mentioned the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway and other road projects, arguing that the region had benefited from the President’s administration.

He also urged voters in the South-East to consider the potential benefits of supporting the President, insisting that their votes should be used as a bargaining instrument to advance the interests of the region.

The governor recalled that APGA secured slightly above 5,000 votes for Tinubu in Anambra during the 2023 presidential election, but expressed the expectation that the party would improve on that performance in 2027.

He further defended the administration’s economic policies, saying he and former Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala had independently acknowledged improvements in the country’s economy.

The rally attracted APGA members and supporters from Anambra and other parts of the country, marking the formal commencement of the party’s nationwide mobilisation for the 2027 elections.

APGA’s adoption of Tinubu means the party will support the President’s re-election bid rather than field its own presidential candidate, while continuing to contest legislative positions across the country.