2027: Victory sure for APC, says Yilwatda

The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, has expressed optimism that the party will comfortably win the 2027 general election.

Yilwatda spoke yesterday in Abuja while hosting members of the party’s Press Corps who visited to condole with him on the passing of his mother, Mama Lydia Yilwatda.

The national chairman expressed appreciation for the journalists’ condolence visit.

Assessing APC’s performance in the by-elections, Yilwatda noted that the party’s opposition leaders were  “roundly defeated,” even in their comfort zones by the candidates of the ruling party.

He said: “If you look at it, where the opposition leaders are, we all defeated them in all those locations: from Kaduna to Kano, to Adamawa, to Taraba. So, we just made it clear that our party is a leading party.

“We are also not just a ruling party, but we are the leading party and the preferred party in Nigeria and preferred by Nigerians.

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“If you have 75 per cent acceptance by the people across the country, our success is not just in the North but also in the South.

“It tells you that in Nigeria, APC is the most accepted party across the country. That’s the same thing we’ve made in Nigeria. So, expect that 2027 is going to be the same thing.”

The APC national chairman said while other parties engaged in television debates, the governing party has been meeting the people at the grassroots to campaign and get their support.

“So, forget the rhetoric on television. We are not addressing television. We are addressing the people at the grassroots. Our policies are progressive in nature. So, we don’t address the bourgeois. We don’t address the rich. We address the poorest of the poor.

“That’s what our policies are. Our target is to ensure that Nigerians, not people on TV but Nigerians who believe in us, who have confidence in the party, who like progressive policies of the government, who like the bold steps taken by the government to ensure that we make changes and bring policies that are creating the real changes that have never been seen before in this country…