The Special Adviser on Policy Communication to President Bola Tinubu, Daniel Bwala, has expressed confidence that the president will secure at least 2,000,000 votes from the South-East in the 2027 presidential election—more than four times the number he garnered in the region during the 2023 polls.
Speaking during an interview on Channels Television’s current affairs programme on Wednesday, Bwala asserted that President Tinubu’s support base is expanding, especially in regions previously dominated by other political figures.
“This is going to be like, I don’t know how to describe it, but let me take you zone by zone,” he said. “You see the South-East, I guarantee you, President Bola Tinubu is going to get more than four times, if not six times, the value of the vote he got. He’ll get up to two million.”
He attributed this projected shift in support to what he described as a decline in the influence of Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi. Bwala claimed that Obi’s chances of clinching a party ticket for the 2027 elections are uncertain.
“There are lots of votes in the region. As I tell you, he’s not going to get a ticket in any of the parties (ADC, PDP, LP). That is Peter Obi,” Bwala stated.
He further argued that Obi’s previous electoral success was not rooted in political structure or policy-driven support.
“The problem now is that he might not even get the vice presidential ticket from the way things are going, but whether Peter Obi is a ticket bearer of the party, he has lost more than 50% of his votes because they were not votes that were built on agenda and politics,” Bwala said. “They were built on rhetoric and division, and Nigerian people’s eyes are open.”
