2027: APC deploys 4.4m polling unit officials for Tinubu’s re-election — Uzodimma

The Director-General of the Renewed Hope Ambassadors and Chairman of the Progressive Governors’ Forum, Hope uzodimma, on Wednesday said the party had recruited 4,421,150 persons across the nation’s 176,846 polling units as part of its mobilisation plan ahead of the 2027 elections. He expressed confidence that President Bola Tinubu’s performance in office would earn him a second term in the 2027 general election. uzodimma, who is also the Governor of Imo State, made the disclosure in his keynote address at the two-day Renewed Hope Ambassadors National Retreat held at the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja. He said the retreat was meant to build a unified grassroots mobilisation machinery ahead of the 2027 general elections. “At 25 canvassers to a polling unit, that is a lawful civic force of 4,421,150 people across the federation. “That is the mathematics of serious mobilisation. That is the difference between hoping to win and organising to win,” he declared. The governor further outlined what he described as a layered command structure running from a national coordinating centre through six geopolitical zones, 36 states and the FCT, 774 local government areas, 8,809 registration areas and wards, and down to each of the 176,846 polling units. According to him, the RHA now operates across 17 directorates covering youth, organisation and mobilisation, media and publicity, digital and new media, finance, monitoring, compliance and legal, technology and data, support groups, intelligence, special duties, planning, welfare, administration, women affairs, diaspora, and research and innovation. He also announced that the RHA had unveiled a digital platform in April, equipped with a Data Communication Centre to track public sentiment and counter misinformation in real time. Describing 2027 as a defining moment, Uzodinma declared that the elections would be “a referendum on a single question: does Nigeria stay on this hard but necessary road of reform, stability, and shared prosperity, or turn back?” He told participants—coordinators drawn from across the country’s six geopolitical zones—that the retreat was not a ceremonial gathering but a working session that must produce a Declaration on National Mobilisation, a National Grassroots Mobilisation Blueprint, a Standard Messaging Manual, State-by-State Action Plans, a Polling Unit Deployment Doctrine, a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework, and an Election Readiness Checklist before dispersal. “Do not waste it on speeches. Build something that lasts,” the governor urged, charging the delegates to operate as “the bridge betwee