2027: Tunji-Ojo targets 90% of Ondo votes for Tinubu
2027: Tunji-Ojo targets 90% of Ondo votes for Tinubu
The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has intensified grassroots mobilisation for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election in 2027, establishing support groups across the 18 local government areas of Ondo State.
The mobilisation, according to the minister’s media consultant, Femi Salako, is aimed at securing increased support for Tinubu ahead of the 2027 presidential election.
Salako disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday titled, ‘We Are Ready: As Ondo Welcomes Mr President, BTO Leads the Renewed Hope March’, ahead of the All Progressives Congress presidential campaign rally scheduled to be held in Akure, Ondo State, on Wednesday.
The APC campaign rally in Akure would be led by Vice-President Kashim Shettima and attended by governors, ministers and other party leaders.
Salako said the minister’s support group, named the BTO4PBAT group, had taken its campaign to all 18 local government areas, 203 wards and 3,933 polling units, with a target of securing 90 per cent of the state’s votes for Tinubu.
He added, “The BTO Unit to Unit movement, inaugurated in April, was where the minister declared that the President’s re-election was non-negotiable.
“Across the state, a network of support groups now carries the Renewed Hope message to the grassroots. The Asiwaju Mandate Group has become a rallying point for party faithful, and its women’s wing has set a target of 95 per cent support among Ondo women.”
Salako also listed the Grassroots Movement for Tinubu, the Ondo Elders Movement for Tinubu and the PBAT Mandate Elders Forum among the groups mobilising support for the President.
Salako added that the mobilisation for Tinubu, by the Interior Minister, even extends outside the shores of Nigeria.
“In Ondo South, the Progressives Southern Forum has pledged half a million votes from the senatorial district alone, while the BTO Coalition for PBAT 2027 has carried the message as far as the Nigerian community in the United Kingdom, with a target of more than one million votes for the President in the state,” he added.
The minister’s aide said students had also joined the mobilisation, with leaders of the National Association of Nigerian Students in Ondo State expressing support for Tinubu and taking the campaign message to their campuses and communities.
Explaining the approach adopted by the groups, Salako said the mobilisers have stayed in touch with the grassroots to canvass for votes for Tinubu in the 2027 election.
He said, “What sets this machinery apart is method. Rather than waiting for the occasional rally, these groups have been asked to stay in touch with communities, listen to residents and explain the policies of the administration in plain language.”
Salako added that Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa had hosted the state’s ministers, including Tunji-Ojo, in preparation for the rally, while the party in Ondo had set a target of one million votes for Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election.
