Southwest Stands Firm with Tinubu — Lagos APC Replies Olawepo-Hashim
Kehinde Adeleye
The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has reaffirmed that the Southwest region remains solidly behind President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ahead of the 2027 general elections.
The party’s spokesman, Seye Oladejo, made this known in a statement issued on Saturday in Lagos while responding to comments credited to supporters of Dr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, a presidential aspirant under the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), who claimed that the Southwest would not re-elect President Tinubu.
Oladejo dismissed the statement as baseless, saying Olawepo-Hashim lacked the political structure and electoral strength to mount a serious challenge at the national level.
“Olawepo-Hashim is a perennial aspirant and a convenient mascot for opposition desperation,” Oladejo said.
He mocked the aspirant’s purported endorsements, describing them as “photocopied letterhead endorsements from tiny rallies and press statements that do not translate to votes.”
According to the APC spokesman, President Tinubu would decisively defeat any coalition attempting to block his re-election bid.
“In the unlikely event that he somehow emerges as the presidential candidate of the free-falling PDP, a party evidently bankrupt of both human and material resources, he will be roundly beaten at the polls,” he said.
Oladejo also criticised Olawepo-Hashim’s remarks on the Tinubu administration as “distasteful and unacceptable,” insisting that the current government is laying a solid and irreversible foundation in infrastructure, education, agriculture, security, and fiscal reforms.
“Those who traffic in selective statistics and currency rhetoric do so because they cannot defend the alternative a return to the waste, arrogance, and economic mismanagement that nearly extinguished our nation’s potential,” he added.
He maintained that Nigerians would not be deceived into abandoning ongoing reforms for “recycled excuses” from the opposition.
“To the political jobbers behind this noise: stop insulting the intelligence of Lagos residents and Nigerians,” he warned, adding that issuing press statements is not the same as governing effectively.
Oladejo concluded that in 2027, Nigerians would vote for continuity under a president who has provided clear direction and tangible progress rather than “the empty spectacle of political tourists.”
“The Southwest will not abandon its own for a project of theatrical ambition without substance,” he added.
