By Salif Atojoko
Abuja, May 22, 2025
The leadership of the National Assembly (NASS) on Thursday at the National Summit of the All Progressives Congress (APC) party, held in Abuja, endorsed President Bola Tinubu as their sole candidate for the 2027 presidential election.
The endorsement was moved by Sen. Godswill Akpabio, the President of the Senate, and seconded by Hon. Tajudeen Abass, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
This followed an earlier endorsement of Tinubu as the sole candidate of the APC in the 2027 by Gov. Hope Uzodinma of Imo and Chairman of the Progressive Governors’ Forum.
Akpabio moved that Tinubu should be adopted as the sole candidate of the APC for the Presidency in 2027.
“Nigerians are saying that because you have done a difficult job well, that it is time to reward you by sending you back to the Presidency for a second term in office,” he said.
Akpabio said the endorsement was based on the political sagacity of Tinubu, whom he said had been able to set Nigeria on the path of growth as confirmed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
He said Nigerians and people at the grassroots were very excited, and that members of the National Assembly were also excited and had never had it so good.
Abass said he stood on behalf of 109 Senators and 360 members of the House of Representatives, and all the 36 Speakers and their members, to second the motion raised by the president of the senate.
In a related development, the National Working Committee (NWC) of the APC, also on Thursday, endorsed President Tinubu as the sole candidate of the party for the 2027 Presidential election.
Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, the Chairman of the party, and members of the committee, announced the endorsement at the party’s National Summit held in Abuja.
He described the endorsement of the NWC as the mother of all endorsements, following earlier endorsements by the Progressive Governors Forum and the leadership of the National Assembly.
“We thank the Governor of Progressive Governors Forum, the leadership of the National Assembly, and all other stakeholders who joined various sectors of our party for the endorsement.
“As the Chairman of the party, and on behalf of the National Working Committee, I hereby affirm the various endorsements and declare President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the sole presidential candidate of APC,” said Ganduje.
According to him, the party’s NWC is the only recognised platform, legally, to field a candidate in any election.
