2027: No vacancy in Aso Rock, APC women’ll deliver 67% of Tinubu’s votes — Women leader

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By Dayo Johnson, Akure

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The National Women Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Mary Alile Idele, has declared that there is “no vacancy” in Aso Rock ahead of the 2027 general elections, expressing confidence that women will play a decisive role in President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid.

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Idele made the declaration in Akure during the sensitisation and empowerment programme for women under the Project 774 Explode Initiative.

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She said women across the country were mobilising to support the President’s second-term ambition, adding that they would deliver 67 per cent of the votes cast for Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election.

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“The party is going into elections in a few months. We want to see continuity of the good work of Mr. President, and we are also telling them that 4+4 must be eight.

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“There is no vacancy in Aso Rock. The women of this country are ready to vote, and if we are not voting, nobody is winning. We are ready to vote Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for a second term in 2027,” she said.

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Idele further expressed confidence that the APC would secure victory in the next general election.

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“The APC family will be winning the next election without any question of doubt. A lot of difficult decisions have been made, and a lot more need to be made to get to where we are heading,” she said.

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She cited the Federal Government’s student loan scheme as one of the initiatives that should be sustained through continuity in governance.

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“For the first time, students are now getting loans to go to school. That is something you cannot cut short because we need continuity so that our children can go to school and debunk the insinuation that education is a scam,” she added.

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Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, represented by his deputy, Dr. Olayide Adelami, said Nigeria’s future depends on unlocking the potential of women.

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He described gender equality as “a moral obligation, a democratic necessity and an economic imperative,” noting that women remain central to his administration’s OUR EASE development agenda through appointments, entrepreneurship support and social protection programmes.

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“We must move beyond advocacy to practical commitments” to ensure women play greater roles in governance, Adelami said.

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The wife of the governor, Mrs. Esther Aiyedatiwa, said the programme was designed to promote gender equality and prepare more women for leadership positions.

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She observed that social, cultural and economic barriers continued to limit women’s participation in leadership and urged participants to apply the leadership, advocacy and campaign skills acquired during the programme.

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Also speaking, the Commissioner for Women Affairs, Dr. Seun Osamaye, said women in the state had benefited from grants, empowerment programmes and skills acquisition initiatives under the current administration.

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“Our women are happy because of the developmental strides and human capacity development being driven by Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa. Many women have benefited from grants and empowerment programmes that are making them self-reliant,” Osamaye said.

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She added that beneficiaries of the empowerment initiative were drawn from the APC as well as grassroots entrepreneurs across Ondo State.

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