The Progressives Governors Forum, PGF, the umbrella body of governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has rejected any political alliance capable of undermining President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid or the party’s candidates in the 2027 general election.
The governors said they would neither participate in, support nor endorse any arrangement capable of weakening the APC or creating competing interests within the ruling party.
The chairman of the forum and Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma, disclosed the position after a closed-door meeting of APC governors at the Imo State Governor’s Lodge in Abuja.
The development comes amid reported political differences between Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, and some governors, including Uzodimma and Kwara State Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq.
Wike, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, recently spoke about his disagreements with the two governors during a media interaction in Port Harcourt.
“Take for example, Kwara, he has been the one championing this campaign against me everywhere. Yes, I have confronted him too. I don’t talk about what I cannot defend,” Wike said.
The minister alleged that AbdulRazaq accused him of sponsoring politicians against the governor’s preferred candidates in Kwara.
Wike, however, argued that AbdulRazaq should appreciate his role in providing a political platform for aggrieved APC figures who left the ruling party for the PDP.
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Wike said some of the politicians could have joined the wider coalition opposing Tinubu but instead chose to operate within the PDP, describing this as evidence of the political accommodation he had provided.
AbdulRazaq, who is serving his second term as Kwara governor, has faced competing interests over who succeeds him.
Several APC governorship aspirants have previously raised concerns about the direction of the party in the state, while the G15 group of APC stakeholders has publicly challenged AbdulRazaq’s leadership of the party structure. Wike’s comments about Uzodimma were also direct, although less detailed.
“Governor Hope, he knows the support I give to him,” he said, recalling that the Imo governor had at one point declined to support him. Wike has been associated with opposition candidates in some states ahead of the 2027 elections.
In Imo, he is supporting the PDP governorship candidate, while in Kwara he is backing Senator Saliu Mustapha in the Kwara Central senatorial contest against AbdulRazaq.
Mustapha, a former APC member, defected to the PDP after losing the APC ticket for the Kwara Central senatorial district to AbdulRazaq.
Reading the communique issued after the meeting, Uzodimma said the governors’ priority was to support candidates officially fielded by the APC at all levels. He said the forum had no intention of supporting candidates outside the APC.
“The APC Governors Forum unanimously resolved that its members will not participate in, support or endorse any alliance or political arrangement capable of undermining the re-election of Mr. President, weakening the APC or adversely affecting any candidate of the party at all levels,” Uzodimma said.
He added that the forum would not support candidates who were not contesting under the APC platform. “The governors’ campaign commitment is exclusively to all APC candidates. All levels of the party campaign architecture will align with the expectations of Mr. President and the strategic objectives of the party.”
On the proposed APC Presidential Campaign Council, the governors said they would take leading roles in mobilising support for Tinubu’s re-election across their respective states.
They said the campaign strategy would focus on grassroots mobilisation, with efforts to reach communities and engage different demographic groups across the country.
The governors also pledged to strengthen internal party unity and harmonise campaign structures from the national level down to the constituency level.
They said they would continue to drive development in their respective states in line with the administration’s Renewed Hope agenda.
Daily Trust
