Leaders of the South-West Agenda for Asiwaju (SWAGA), a key support group for President Bola Tinubu, have relaunched their mobilisation campaign ahead of the 2027 general election.
The group, which was instrumental to Tinubu’s presidential bid in 2023, unveiled “SWAGA 2.0” at an event in Lagos on Tuesday.
Senator Dayo Adeyeye, chairman of SWAGA and board chair of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), said the president’s re-election would deliver “the greatest landslide victory in the history of the fourth republic”.
“We are not afraid. It is going to be the greatest landslide victory in the history of the republic — even in northern Nigeria,” Adeyeye said.
He dismissed suggestions that the north would not support Tinubu in 2027, describing them as “a myth”.
His words: “Nigerians should not allow those playing to the gallery to deceive them, those who couldn’t do anything in their states when they were in government.
“We have not been disappointed. Tinubu has performed beyond our expectations. We thought he would succumb to political pressure, but he has confronted everything head-on.
“Tinubu is a courageous leader. He doesn’t think like a politician, but like a statesman who thinks about the next generation.”
Adeyeye argued that the north had never voted uniformly for one political party and that its diverse interests make it unlikely to oppose Tinubu’s re-election.
“The North has at least three geopolitical zones. They don’t always go the same way all the time.
“The North has never voted as a monolith. It is not one political entity. Every part decides its own political fate,” he stated.
He said northern leaders were pleased with Tinubu’s performance and that opposition figures under the African Democratic Congress (ADC) had no electoral weight.
He added: “Those saying Tinubu will not get votes in the north are people who do not have electoral value whatsoever. We don’t even know them,” he said.
“Eight years of Tinubu’s presidency is certain by the grace of God. I see all APC governors in the north — and even some governors in other parties — supporting Tinubu.
“I have not seen anybody with electoral value in the north opposed to Asiwaju going for a second term.”
On the relaunch of SWAGA, Adeyeye said the group would intensify its campaign efforts at the right time and highlighted the president’s infrastructure drive as proof of his performance.
He listed major road projects across the country, including the 9th Mile-Oturkpo-Makurdi Road, Sokoto-Badagry Highway, Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano Dual Carriageway, Enugu-Onitsha Expressway, and the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway.
He praised Tinubu’s economic reforms, including the removal of petrol subsidy and the floating of the naira.
“If Tinubu had not taken those bold steps, the nation’s economy would have collapsed,” he said.