The Makinde Daura Presidential Campaign Organisation has called on President Bola Tinubu to withdraw from the 2027 presidential race. The group warned that growing public anger against his administration could plunge the country into crisis. It also urged the President to guarantee a free fair and credible election in 2027. Recent incidents of public rejection across the country should serve as a warning to the ruling All Progressives Congress.
In a statement on Sunday the organisation director of strategic communications Richard Ihediwa said Tinubu should demonstrate statesmanship by acknowledging Nigerians demand for a change in leadership. The campaign pointed to the booing of the President and his entourage at the Shehu Shagari Central Mosque in Abuja last Friday as the latest sign of growing dissatisfaction. It recalled a similar incident in Lagos where the President was greeted with chants of ole upon his return from France. Other demonstrations of public displeasure occurred in Kaduna Plateau Rivers Kebbi Sokoto Nasarawa and Osun states.
The organisation said the incidents reflect accumulated frustration over worsening economic conditions and failed leadership. These organic expressions of public displeasure at President Tinubu administration ought to give the President and the All Progressives Congress serious cause for deeper reflection because it is an instinctive expression of accumulated hopelessness and frustration. The group warned that Tinubu should not mistake the support of political elites the powers of incumbency or financial inducements for genuine popular acceptance. It argued that the administration had alienated millions of Nigerians through economic hardship unemployment and rising living costs.
The campaign claimed that about 140 million Nigerians representing 63 per cent of the population had been pushed into poverty. Over 60 million citizens went to bed hungry daily and more than 30 million youths remained unemployed. It faulted the rising cost of petrol which ranged between 1400 and 2000 naira per litre in different parts of the country despite Nigeria status as an oil producing nation. Questioning the administration borrowing record the organisation asked how Tinubu expected Nigerians to support his re election after pushing the country foreign and domestic debt burden to 166.7 trillion naira without meaningful improvement in citizens living conditions.
The statement warned that if Tinubu insisted on contesting the election he should be prepared for widespread rejection at the polls. The die is cast. Nigerians are determined for a change and they are not ready to accept any electoral manipulation that will perpetuate the current economic hardship and social uncertainties under the APC anti people regime for another four years. The organisation urged Nigerians to embrace the Allied Peoples Movement presidential candidate Seyi Makinde describing him as the alternative capable of resetting the country. It said Makinde RESET NIGERIA Agenda offered a pathway towards purposeful governance transparency accountability and equal opportunities for citizens irrespective of their background or connections. The group maintained that Tinubu should accept the need for a new political direction rather than seek another four year mandate.
