Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser on Policy Communication to President Bola Tinubu, has expressed strong optimism about the president’s prospects in the South-East for the 2027 presidential election.
Speaking on Channels Television’s current affairs programme on Wednesday, August 13, 2025, Bwala predicted that Tinubu could secure up to two million votes from the region, a dramatic increase from the 127,370 votes he garnered in 2023.
Bwala claimed that Tinubu’s vote count in the South-East could rise by four to six times, attributing this potential surge to the president’s policies and growing support in the region.
“President Tinubu’s commitment to inclusive governance and development is resonating with Nigerians, including in the South-East,” Bwala said, highlighting ongoing efforts to address regional concerns and foster economic growth.
The bold projection comes despite Tinubu’s relatively low performance in the South-East during the 2023 election, where the region has historically leaned toward other political candidates.
“This is going to be like, I don’t know how to describe it, but let me take you zone by zone. You see the South-East, I guarantee you, President Bola Tinubu is going to get more than four times, if not six times, the value of the vote he got. He’ll get up to two million,” Bwala said.
When asked how the president would achieve the two million votes if Labour Party’s Peter Obi is on the ballot, Bwala argued that the region had a large voting population, while claiming Obi’s influence had waned.
He said, “There are lots of votes in the region,” he said, adding that Obi would only serve as a Director-General in the coalition-backed African Democratic Congress (ADC).
“As I tell you, he’s not going to get a ticket in any of the parties (ADC, PDP, LP). That is Peter Obi. The problem now is that he might not even get the vice presidential ticket from the way things are going, but whether Peter Obi is a ticket bearer of the party, he has lost more than 50% of his votes because they were not votes that were built on agenda and politics. They were built on rhetoric and division, and Nigerian people’s eyes are open.”
He also argued that the recent defections of southern governors to the APC and the endorsement by governors in opposition parties would push the president’s numbers and popularity in the south-east ahead of the forthcoming election.
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