Senate President Godswill Akpabio on Thursday assured President Bola Tinubu that his re-election bid would be smooth and uncontested, in contrast to the intense competition he faced during the 2023 election.
Akpabio gave this assurance while leading the National Assembly leadership in passing a vote of confidence in President Tinubu at the All Progressives Congress (APC) national summit, held at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
“If this president has done well, is it not us (National Assembly) that will say so? If he has not done well, is it not us that will give him notice of impeachment? We are not giving him notice of impeachment, we are giving him notice that it was difficult for you in 2023, but in 2027 I see everything turning around, the number of states that are coming to join you,” Akpabio said.
“As I was leaving, one senator was dragging my dress today. He said, ‘please take me there’, and I said you can’t come now. He is a Labour senator but I don’t want to mention his name.”
Tinubu, who is just 7 days away from completing two years in office, won the presidential election in 2023 but not without serious challenge from former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party and Peter Obi of the Labour Party.
He came out tops in 12 of Nigeria’s 36 states, and secured significant numbers in several other states to claim the highest number of votes — 8,794,726, almost two million votes more than his closest rival — Atiku who got got 6,984,520 votes.
Former Anambra State governor, Obi, who, in less than a year, galvanised young voters in a manner some have described as unprecedented finished the race with 6,101,533.
Earlier at the APC national summit, the Progressives Governors’ Forum passed a vote of confidence in President Bola Tinubu, with the party leadership adopting the decision.
The governors elected under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), put their decision up for adoption during the party’s national summit at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
The summit is attended by President Tinubu, Vice President Kashim Shettima, Senate President Godswill Akpabio, House of Reps Speaker Tajudeen Abbas, governors elected under the party and other party bigwigs.