The presidential campaign council of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) has expressed confidence that its candidate, Seyi Makinde, will defeat President Bola Tinubu in 12 states in the January 2027 presidential election.
The council said Makinde’s RESET NIGERIA agenda was gaining support across the country and could weaken Tinubu’s chances of securing re-election.
Richard Ihediwa, director of strategic communications for the APM campaign council, stated this in a statement issued on Saturday.
He identified Oyo, Kaduna, Rivers, Plateau, Borno, Enugu, Bauchi, Sokoto, Delta, Kano, Adamawa and Lagos as the 12 states where the council expects Makinde to defeat Tinubu.
According to Ihediwa, the states are among those the All Progressives Congress (APC) has identified for Tinubu’s campaign rallies.
“We are confident that Engr. Seyi Makinde will defeat President Bola Tinubu in the 12 battleground states identified by the President, as well as in other states across the federation, in the January 2027 presidential election,” he said.
Ihediwa argued that political pressure and the advantages of incumbency would not stop the APM candidate from gaining wider support.
He also challenged Tinubu to travel by road to Plateau, Kaduna, Kano and other states to assess the condition of federal highways and the challenges facing Nigerians.
The APM spokesperson accused the Tinubu administration of spending public funds on projects and programmes that, in his view, have done little to ease the economic difficulties confronting citizens.
He said Makinde’s RESET NIGERIA agenda would provide an alternative through a four-year transitional government of national unity, with education, economic development, security and socio-political reforms as its four main priorities.
On the economy, Ihediwa said the proposed programme would focus on boosting production to reduce poverty.
He added that Makinde’s security plan would combine intelligence gathering, social reorientation and both kinetic and non-kinetic approaches to tackling insecurity.
The education component, he said, would seek to expand access to quality and functional education, while the proposed institutional reforms would promote inclusive governance and responsible leadership.
