{"id":69287,"date":"2025-06-30T00:46:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T00:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69287"},"modified":"2025-06-30T00:46:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T00:46:05","slug":"south-south-apc-leaders-back-tinubu-for-2027-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/30\/south-south-apc-leaders-back-tinubu-for-2027-re-election\/","title":{"rendered":"South-South APC Leaders Back Tinubu for 2027 Re-Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Top leaders and governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC), from the South-South region have declared their support for President Bola Tinubu\u2019s second-term bid, citing his reform-driven leadership and commitment to national development.<\/p>\n<p>The endorsement was made during an APC stakeholders&#8217; meeting held on Saturday in Benin City, Edo State.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement by Fred Itua, Chief Press Secretary to the Edo State Governor, party stalwarts reaffirmed their confidence in Tinubu\u2019s \u201cRenewed Hope\u201d agenda ahead of the 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Prominent speakers included Senator Adams Oshiomhole (Edo North), Minister of Niger Delta Development Abubakar Momoh, Cross River State Governor Bassey Otu, and former Bayelsa State Governor Timipre Sylva.<\/p>\n<p>They commended the president for key policy strides such as the student loan initiative and tax relief packages for low-income earners.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Monday Okpebholo described the gathering as \u201cunprecedented\u201d and a symbol of growing unity within the region\u2019s APC bloc.<\/p>\n<p>He praised Tinubu as a \u201ccapacity-driven president\u201d and pledged to secure at least 2.5 million votes for him from Edo State in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Okpebholo also credited recent federal road projects linking eight Uhunmwonde communities to the president\u2019s continued support for grassroots infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Top leaders and governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC), from the South-South region have declared their support for President Bola Tinubu\u2019s second-term bid, citing his reform-driven leadership and commitment to national development. The endorsement was made during an APC stakeholders&#8217; meeting held on Saturday in Benin City, Edo State. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":69288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69289,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69287\/revisions\/69289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}