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President of GLOBE Legislators and Patron of Strategic Mobilisation Network for Tinubu Continuity 2027 (SMN TC2027), Rt. Hon. Sam Onuigbo, has stated failure to re-elect President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2027 will undermine Nigeria’s financial progress.
Onuigbo acknowledged this in Umuahia, Abia State, throughout an interactive session with members and stakeholders of the community, the place he delivered a speech titled “The Case for Continuity, Consolidation and Prosperity.”
He stated the community was established as a result of Nigeria should not abandon the sturdy, seen and inspiring progress recorded underneath Tinubu, including that its mission is to construct a powerful political mobilisation construction that may take the message of continuity past celebration conferences to markets, workplaces, faculties, communities and locations of worship.
According to former federal lawmaker, SMN TC2027 was conceived after a strategic assembly on August 28, 2026, to mobilise strange Nigerians for Tinubu’s re-election, explaining that the community stands for continuity, consolidation, completion and prosperity – to maintain reforms which might be producing outcomes, strengthen beneficial properties, end excellent initiatives and translate them into prosperity.
Onuigbo stated the case for continuity is anchored on reforms initiated since May 29, 2023, noting that Tinubu inherited 22.41 per cent inflation, N27 trillion Ways and Means, international change distortions and unsustainable gasoline subsidy, and took troublesome choices together with subsidy removing and foreign exchange unification.
He stated measurable enhancements have emerged, citing decline in headline inflation from a peak of 36.4 per cent to 14.63 per cent as of September 2026, GDP progress of three.87 per cent in 2025 from 3.38 per cent in 2024 and 4.43 per cent in Q2 2026, international reserves rising from $3.9 billion in 2023 to about $55 billion in October 2026, improved debt-service-to-revenue ratio, crude manufacturing progress from 1.3mbpd to 1.73mbpd and home refining from 30,000bpd to 700,000bpd with Dangote Refinery.
He additionally listed the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) with over 1.64 million college students benefitting from N372.62 billion disbursed, infrastructure initiatives together with the 750km Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway and Sokoto-Badagry Superhighway, CREDICORP credit score initiatives for merchants and artisans, Presidential CNG initiative, and elevated consideration to safety together with the proposed State Police framework.
Onuigbo charged members to construct their marketing campaign round continuity by connecting insurance policies to on a regular basis experiences – explaining NELFUND to college students and fogeys, credit score alternatives to merchants, infrastructure and agriculture to neighborhood leaders – and to marketing campaign in a method that builds confidence by acknowledging hardship, listening with respect, explaining with information and figures, and avoiding insults, exaggeration and unverified claims.
He stated social media alone can not change bodily presence in communities, markets, campuses {and professional} associations, stressing that members should organise correctly, establish areas of affect, construct relationships with associations and neighborhood buildings, and measure outcomes by variety of folks reached and points raised.
“The success of this network will not be determined by the number of people who attend our meetings. It will be determined by our ability to build relationships, communicate effectively, earn public confidence and translate that confidence into electoral support,” he stated, including that continuity just isn’t about retaining energy however about sustaining good insurance policies till Nigerians take pleasure in prosperity.
A Board of Trustee member of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Ezebuiro, whereas addressing the gathering, assured that his celebration would assist different stake holders to make sure Tinubu’s re-election.
Representatives of pupil teams, market ladies and different ladies teams and associations current on the assembly pledged their dedication to reaching the objective of the community.
