APC passes vote of confidence on Tinubu, urges him to contest in 2027

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The Executive Council of the All Progressives Congress (APC), South-South zone, has passed a vote of confidence on President Bola Tinubu, urging him to consider contesting for a second term in 2027.
 
This is part of a 14-point communiqué adopted as the resolution of the committee and issued to newsmen at the end of its meeting in Calabar, the Cross River State capital on Sunday.
   
It expressed its profound gratitude to the President for his policies, projects and programmes, particularly the economic reforms targeted at repositioning the country.
   
The committee, after deliberating on reports, on the strengths, weaknesses and reforms from the six states of the zone, made up of Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo and Rivers states, commended the President for his commitment to the coastal road project and the commencement of the construction from both ends of the project. 
  
The committee also commended Tinubu for appointments so far made in favour of the region, imploring him to consider more faithful party members for appointments at the federal level.
   
The committee further thanked the President for appointing Nyesom Wike into his cabinet, urging him to continue with his good works, reaffirming its unwavering support for the policies and programmes of the current administration in areas of good governance, economic reforms, national security and infrastructural development.
   
The party passed a vote of confidence on the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, as the leader of the APC in the zone.