“We Will Stage Mother Of All Mobilizations For Tinubu’s Re-Election” – Rivers NASS Caucus

By Suleiman Anyalewechi

At a time overwhelming number of Nigerians are  clamouring for the restoration of democratic order in Rivers State, the State’s National Assembly caucus,  on Saturday, April 26, 2025, threw its weight behind the yet-to- be proclaimed ambition of President  Bola Tinubu for a second term in office.

Consequently, they urged  all those nursing any Presidential ambition from across the country come 2027 to bury the idea.

A statement jointly issued by the nine-member caucus, which was read on their behalf by Senator Barry Mpigi, premised its support for the President on the visible and verifiable breakthroughs so far recorded by his adminstration.

The caucus which is made up two Senators, and seven House of Representatives members, insisted on the need to consolidate the gains so far made by the Renewed Hope Agenda of the President.

Instructively all the Federal law makers are of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP extraction.

In a clear reference to the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, the caucus advised “all would-be Presidential Candidates, especially, those with desperate and never-ending Presidential ambitions to jettison such ambition  and rally round President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2027”.

“We, the members of the National Assembly from Rivers State, comprising Senators and members of the House of Representatives, extend our heartfelt gratitude to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his trust in our leader, His Excellency, Nyesom Wike, following his appointment as the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.

“We are gladdened by the President’s public acknowledgement and commendation of the exceptional performance of the Minister of FCT, whom he described as the “Master of Infrastructure”.

“Now, having carefully reviewed the President’s economic policies which are targeted at repositioning our once moribund economy through his Renewed Hope Agenda, and taking into account the massive rot, and decay he inherited on the 29th of May 2023, including our unenviable debt profile and the terrible inflationary figures occasioned by the printing of N22.7 trillion by the Central Bank of Nigeria through Ways and Means overdraft for the Federal Government, between 2015 and 2023 under President Muhammadu Buhari.

“With the near absence of critical infrastructure to support food production, we have come to the conclusion that the President’s economic plan is the surest way out of our country’s social and economic morass.

“Further, our assessment is firm that the President’s Renewed Hope Agenda is very much on track with credible basis that offers greater improvement in the economic wellbeing of Nigerians if given the necessary time.

“Still, we are convinced that the declining inflation figures, the substantial reduction in our foreign debt profile, and an IMF-backed promising growth figure all bode well for the economy in the years. ahead”, the NASS caucus posited.

The Legislators also expressed immense gratitude to the President for his wise decision to intervene in the lingering political impasse in Rivers State through the instrumentality of a State of Emergency.

According to them, the State of Emergency has remarkably set in motion  the process for  the return of peace in the troubled environment.

They promised to initiate massive campaign of awareness for the laudable policies of the President, preparatory to his re-election bid in 2027.

“As Legislators who are closest to the people, we shall begin the mother of all mobilizations of our people to repeat, in greater measure, what we did in 2023 in order to re-elect President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2027”, the Law makers pledged.