Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has called on all members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to put aside personal ambitions and rally behind President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid in 2027.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday, Keyamo stressed that Tinubu needs a second term to fully implement and complete the sweeping reforms his administration has begun.
“Every single APC member in Nigeria today should be concentrating on the re-election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu irrespective of whether it affects your personal interest or not because he does need a second term to fully finish up all these reforms,” Keyamo said.
He warned that any disruption in Tinubu’s reform agenda could spell doom for the country’s progress, noting how past administrations abandoned promising policies.
“It will be tragic for any government to come in 2027 and stop all these reforms. This is what has happened in the past when you had all the inchoate policies that were implemented,” he said.
Keyamo also addressed the recent defection of Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, to the APC — a significant development in his home state. He revealed that he had willingly relinquished party leadership in Delta to Oborevwori in the interest of party unity and to boost Tinubu’s chances in 2027.
“Whether I have to make sacrifices like yesterday where we surrendered (party leadership in Delta), it is all irrelevant so long as we are strengthening APC the more for the re-election of Mr President.
I don’t care whether it affects me, I don’t care whether I lose out politically, Mr President must be elected,” he stated.
Keyamo described Oborevwori’s move as a heavy blow to the opposition, saying the PDP had lost its core financial and political backbone in Delta State.
“The PDP knows that they have lost something like their soul. Delta was like the soul of the PDP. Delta was one of the major funders of the PDP; they have lost it,” he added.
