Shettima urges Ebonyi voters to reelect Tinubu in 2027

Vice President Kashim Shettima urged voters in Ebonyi State to reelect President Bola Tinubu in 2027, using an All Progressives Congress rally in Abakaliki on November 9 to cite federal projects and programmes as reasons to renew the administration’s mandate.

Shettima said the government had supported Ebonyi and the wider Southeast through roads, agricultural assistance, grants, employment and digital-skills programmes. He named the Calabar-Ebonyi-Benue-Kogi-Nasarawa-Abuja Superhighway, Ndibe Bridge and the Enugu-Abakaliki-Ogoja Expressway among projects intended to improve transport links and access to markets.

He also cited fertilizer distribution and FarmerMoni assistance for farmers, and said thousands of Ebonyi residents had received grants under the Presidential Conditional Grant Scheme. The rally accounts gave no total for the grants or breakdown of recipients. Shettima said federal employment and digital-skills initiatives were helping young people acquire skills and build livelihoods.

On security, Shettima said conditions in the Southeast had improved under Tinubu and that the government was working to restore order. He cited the Nigerian Army Recruits Training Depot at...