Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has urged members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to bury their differences and personal ambition and ensure President Bola Tinubu is reelected in 2027.
Mr Keyamo, who made the appeal during an interview on Channels TV on Monday, said Mr Tinubu must be re-elected to ensure the completion of the reforms he initiated in governance.
“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.”
Mr Keyamo said: “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.”
The minister also explained why he ceded the leadership of the party structure to Delta State Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, who recently defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
He said such sacrifices are necessary to strengthen the APC and improve Mr Tinubu’s chances of re-election 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 the APC 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 said.
Mr Keyamo mocked the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, saying it has lost its soul.
He explained that Delta was one of the major funders of the PDP, adding that the defection of the governor was one of the major boosts for the APC, ahead of the 2027 general elections.
“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.
