Deji Elumoye in Abuja 

All the 22 Progressive Governors under the auspices of the Progressives Governors’ Forum (PGF) on Thursday passed a vote of confidence in President Bola Tinubu.

The Forum represented by its Chairman, Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State, who spoke on behalf of all the Progressives Governors present at the National Summit of the ruling All Progressives Congress holding at the Banquet Hall of the State House, Abuja also moved a motion for the adoption of President Tinubu as the sole presidential candidate of the APC for the 2027 general elections.

The Vice Chairman of the PGF and Governor of Kaduna State, Senator Uba Sani, was quick to join Governor Uzodimma on the podium to second the motion for the adoption of the President as APC presidential candidate for 2027 poll.

Uzodimma thereafter put the motion to vote before the participants at the National Summit, including Vice President Kashim Shettima, Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio; members of the National Assembly, seeving and former governors and APC members from across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, who through voice vote and standing ovation adopted President Tinubu for a second term in office come 2027.