2027: Ethnic Politics Can’t Stop Tinubu’s Re-election — Lagos APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State has declared that ethnic politics will not derail President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s re-election bid in 2027, insisting that Nigerians are now more focused on competence and results than identity.

The party’s spokesperson, Seye Oladejo, made the remark in a statement on Saturday in response to comments by Chief Dele Momodu, a former chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who urged opposition parties to unite and deploy ethnic sentiment to defeat Tinubu in the next general election.

Oladejo commended Momodu — who recently defected from the PDP to the African Democratic Congress (ADC) — for what he described as his “belated admission that President Tinubu remains politically unstoppable.”

“Let it be known that the days of weaponising ethnicity as a shortcut to power are long gone,” Oladejo said. “The Nigerian electorate has evolved. They are now focused on who can deliver results, not who can divide the nation.”

He added that Nigerians now recognise that “leadership is earned through vision, performance, and consistency — not through editorials written from the sidelines of social gigs.”

Oladejo stated that under Tinubu’s leadership, Nigeria is being rebuilt on the principles of equity, inclusion, and reform, citing progress in infrastructure renewal, economic stabilisation, and social investment.

“This administration is proving that leadership is about ideas, not identity,” he said.

The APC spokesman advised Momodu to “rediscover his own political direction” before offering counsel to others, adding that both individual and collective opposition efforts have already been outmatched by the Tinubu administration.

“Truth be told, political realists have accepted the defeat of the opposition, come the year 2027,” Oladejo said. “The 2027 election will be a referendum on competence and performance, not on ethnicity or nostalgia. And in that contest, Dele Momodu’s brand of political showmanship will have no place.”

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