2027: Tinubu will recontest election on strength of administration’s achievements –Presidency

*The Presidency says the current administration has lots of achievements to showcase, especially in Northern Nigeria, noting President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ‘will be running on his own achievements, and we are saying that a lot has been done’

Alexander Davis | ConsumerConnect

As preparations for Nigeria’s 2027 General Elections gather momentum, the Presidency has said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will run his campaign, and contest the Presidential election for a fresh mandate on the strength of his achievements in the last three years.

ConsumerConnect reports top media aides of President Tinubu disclosed this development Monday, April 27, 2026, at a media briefing held in Abuja, FCT.

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The media session was a prelude to a nationwide media tour to showcase the achievements of the present administration across 36 states of the Federation, and the six geopolitical zones.

The Presidency also noted the media tour, scheduled to commence this week, is an initiative of the Renewed Hope Agenda (RHA).

Governor (Senator) Hope Uzodimma of Imo State, who is the Chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum, is the Director-General and National Coordinator of the RHA.

Mr. Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, and Alhaji Tunde Rahman, a Presidential media aide, who doubles as the Director of Media and Publicity of the Renewed Hope Agenda, attended the briefing.

The disclosed the tour would commence from the North-West geopolitical zone of the country.

Rahman also emphasised the objective of the media tour is to sensitise and convince Nigerians, that President Tinubu has kept faith with his promise to deliver quality social infrastructure, and positively touch the lives of consumers in all facets of the national life.

He said: “Like Mr. Onanuga also told you, this is coming under the auspices of the Renew Hope Ambassadors.

“This Renew Hope Ambassador is actually becoming the main vehicle for Mr President’s second-term re-election programme, re-election campaign.”

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Special Duties stated: “And what we are doing at the Renew Hope Ambassador is not to reinvent the wheel.

“We are trying to showcase all the achievements of Mr. President, and they articulate them and bring them to the whole of Nigeria so that Nigeria can see that a lot has been done in the last three years.”

Rahman explained: “And, you know, as opposed to 2023, when he was elected essentially based on his credentials and what the APC under President Buhari had done.

“This time around, he will be running on his own achievements, and we are saying that a lot has been done.”

Core objectives of media tour across the Federation

Underlining the overarching objectives of the proposed media tour, Rahman said the tour would afford Nigerians the opportunity to disregard the narrative that Northern Nigeria has been sidelined in the provision of social infrastructure, as is being peddled in certain quarters.

The media aide asserted: “There is so much to showcase, particularly in the North-West.

“The North-West is very critical, and that’s why we are starting from the Northwest.

“We need journalists to be with us when we go on that tour, so that you can see physically what has been done.”

Buttressing the Presidential Spokespersons’ claims on the positive achievements and impacts of the present administration in the North, Engineer Finbarr Zirra, Director of Rail Transport Services, Federal Ministry of Transportation, also enumerated infrastructural projects under construction and near completion in the North.

Engr. Zirra recalled that the railway master plan, which was conceived in 2002, had since integrated the North.

The Federal Director of Rail Transport Services also said: “Today, we have the Abuja-Kaduna Railway in service.

“Then, Lagos-Ibadan is also being used. But a lot has been done on Kaduna to Kano.

“As I mentioned, the Kaduna-Kano railway line is at substantial completion.”

He noted: “In fact, the Maradi to Kano has been completed. Now, we’re having Kaduna to Abuja; hopefully, by the end of the year, that sector will be linked.

“Then, the other contract, this one, is being handled by the Chinese company.”

Zirra further said: “There’s another one, the Portuguese, who are handling Kano to Katsina to Jibia and also to Maradi. Maradi is 40 kilometres into Niger.

“There’s a branch line starting from Kano to Dutse, about 100 kilometres.

“The total length of this is about 400 kilometres. And work is progressively going on.

“I hope that by the end of the year, from Kano to Katsina will be completed.”

Hint at proposed N200bn investment in speed train

Engr. Zirra as well hinted at a proposed private sector-driven N200 billion investment in a speed train.

“Now, there’s a high-speed train being proposed, and the cost of investment is about N200 billion by the private sector.

“That time, we started from Lagos to Kano and then also Lagos to Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt to Kano,” said he.

The Director stated: “So you can see that Kano, northwest, is central to what the government is doing – investing so much in that region.

“About $2 billion is being put into the Kano-Maradi railway project; it is another huge investment.”

He also explained: “As I said, it’s a standard gauge because the colonial masters built what we call ‘narrow’.

“This one is a standard gauge. The difference between this one is that it’s faster and it’s modern, you know.”

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