Security of lives and property to top Tinubu’s agenda in 2nd term – APC

…No other Nigerian leader has radically transformed Nigerian than Tinubu-Alake boasts …Nigeria has been recording positive growth since Tinubu became President …Tinubu has given opportunity for 1.6 Nigerians to go to university-Idris By Soni Daniel (Northern Region Editor), Emma Ujah (Bureau Chief, Abuja) & Omeiza Ajayi President Bola Tinubu will pay priority attention to the protection of lives and property if he wins the forthcoming presidential election on January 16, 2027, the All Progressives Presidential Campaign Council revealed on Tuesday in Abuja.

To achieve that objective, the party has promised to recruit 28,000 additional military personnel and 50,000 police officers, in order to strengthen Nigeria’s security architecture. Beyond security, the APC administration under the leadership of President Tinubu plans to provide better quality and more affordable life for Nigerians; energy, infrastructure and economic growth, effective and accountable government.

The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Jumoke Oduwole, who is the Deputy Director, Directorate of Manifesto and Policy Development of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, made the declaration with the theme: “Transiting from Reforms to Shared Prosperity”. The party also promised to complete the establishment and equipping of the four new Army Divisions in Makurdi, Ilorin, Jalingo and Benin City; sustain intelligence-led kinetic operations against insurgents and kidnapping networks to degrade and dismantle their operating bases.

In order to deal with kidnappers who have turned the nation’s forests into criminal hideouts, the ruling party promised to deploy trained Forest Guards, Agro-Rangers and Mining Marshals to safeguard agricultural belts, farming communities, grazing routes, national forest reserves and mineral deposits. The minister said the APC administration planned to make Nigeria a fortress where everyone would live happily to actualize their potentials without any form of fear.

Study the past and current manifestoes of the ruling APC and judge us-Gbajabiamila urges Nigerians In his speech at the event, the Chief of Staff to the President, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, urged Nigerians to study the past and current manifestoes of the ruling All Progressives Congress and judge the party by the promises it has kept since 2023 when it assumed power.

Gbajabiamila admitted that the reforms had put real pressure on households, adding that the people living through it deserve to be heard. “Nobody should have to pretend that life is easy at the moment,” he said. The former House Speaker nonetheless defended President Bola Tinubu’s decision to act, saying Tinubu confronted the subsidy burden and a distorted foreign exchange system when he took responsibility for the country in 2023.

According to the Chief of Staff to the President, leaving those problems untouched would have continued to weaken our ability to invest in the future. He defended Tinubu for acting with courage and conviction to remove the subsidy and reform the foreign exchange market to serve Nigeria better. “The difference between a politician and a leader is that while a politician thinks about the next election, a leader thinks about the next generation.

And that is exactly what President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has demonstrated,” Gbajabiamila said. The 4 pillars of the 2027 manifesto The manifesto, according to Gbajabiamila, rests on four pillars: a secure and resilient nation; a better quality and more affordable life for every Nigerian; energy, infrastructure and economic growth; and effective and accountable governance.

They are tied to the eight priority areas of the Renewed Hope Agenda, which the document says will be carried out on four foundations: macroeconomic stability, the rule of law, institutional capability and national cohesion. By 2031, the document commits to power generation scaled towards 10,000 megawatts, annual economic growth of 6 per cent, and youth unemployment and out-of-school children both halved.

It also promises 20,000 additional teachers and health insurance expanded from more than 23 million enrollees to 40 per cent of Nigerians. Primary health centres would function in at least 90 per cent of facilities, up from the current 53 per cent. It further promises to work towards 200,000 homes under the Tinubu Mass Social Housing Scheme, Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) mortgages and licensed private developers, tracked on a public dashboard.

Gbajabiamila added that it commits the government to installing seven million additional electricity meters. He said the document would also expose the government’s own record to public inspection. “The manifesto commits us to publishing targets, identifying those responsible and reporting progress to the public. Citizens should be able to see where delivery is succeeding and where it is falling short,” he said.

Gbajabiamila said the party would ask for the electorate’s mandate in 2027 and would earn it. “A