Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has promised President Bola Tinubu at least three million votes in the 2027 election, declaring his readiness to work under the political guidance of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike.
Fubara made the pledge on Saturday at the Rainbow Coalition presidential campaign rally held at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium in Port Harcourt, where Tinubu was campaigning for re-election.
The governor’s declaration placed Wike at the centre of the state’s mobilisation for Tinubu.
Addressing the rally, Fubara said the state would deliver a decisive victory for the President under Wike’s leadership.
“We promise that under the guidance and direction of our leader Wike, we will deliver a decisive victory with a vote of nothing less than three million for President Tinubu,” the governor said.
He also pledged that Rivers residents would support the President in the forthcoming election, presenting the coalition as a united political front.
Wike, a former Rivers governor, has been leading the Rainbow Coalition’s mobilisation for Tinubu, bringing together political structures from the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party in the state.
The rally followed weeks of preparations by the coalition, including a roadshow involving more than 80 campaign buses representing APC and PDP structures across Rivers State’s 23 local government areas.
Before the event, Wike projected that more than 70,000 people would attend the rally, although the stadium has a seating capacity of about 40,000. The projection was made by the organisers ahead of the President’s arrival and should not be mistaken for a verified attendance figure.
Tinubu arrived in Port Harcourt with Vice-President Kashim Shettima and other political leaders before proceeding to the stadium for the rally.
The governor’s three-million-vote pledge now sets a significant target for the coalition, which will have to translate its political alliance and campaign mobilisation into actual votes in the 2027 election.
