Leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the south-south geo-political zone have endorsed President Bola Tinubu for a second term in office.

The south-south leaders including Progressives Governors Forum spoke in Benin City at an APC’s stakeholders interactive session.

Those that spoke at the event were Senator Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole, Hon. Minister for Regional Development, Abubakar Momoh, Governor of Cross River State, Bassey Edet Otu, spoke on behalf of the Progressive Governors’ Forum.

Others at the event were former Governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr Samuel Ogbuku, APC National Woman Leader, Mary Idele Alile; amongst others.

Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu said the re-election of President Tinubu was already a settled matter.

He said Edo State would deliver the maximum number of votes for President Tinubu.

Former Governor Oshiomhole said Nigerians needed to be reminded of the state of the country before emergence of Tinubu as president.

He said there was more transparency in revenue collection and allocation disbursement under President Tinubu.

The former Edo Governor stated that President Tinubu carried out a revolutionary reform that must be of

interest to the country’s small-scale businessmen and women.

He said Nigerians only hear

of reform of taxes but never knew how such policy would benefit them.

“The President has now decided that if your turnover is less than 50 million Naira, you should be exempted from paying tax.

“That for me is important. You don’t donate blood from somebody who is sick to go and inject to somebody else

who is sick. You end up killing two people. Tinubu says the poor should be exempted from taxation.”

On his part, Monday Okpebholo insisted that hia projects would move Edo people to deliver the 2.5 million votes he promised to deliver to President Bola Tinubu in 2027.

The Edo Governor said he has taken construction to rural areas that were largely abandoned by the past administration.

He said “We have a president with capacity that is making the money available for us to work, he has embarked on critical reforms for the country Nigeria, things that you think are difficult, he is taking decisions on them

“When I said we are going to deliver 2.5 million votes for the president by 2027, I mean it but I heard the three men left in the PDP saying how and I replied that how will it not happen when I am already working on it. For instance, I am tarring roads where the former PDP governor comes from.

“For eight years, he could not tar the roads in his community. I am expecting total votes from them, there are eight communities there and he did not tar any road there for eight years. Their own son did not step his feet in their community but I was there to campaign and I told them I will come and do the roads and today we are doing the roads.

“We are able to do all these things because of the support we are getting from the president. Such a man, how do we pay him back, it is by making sure that by 2027 we support him. We have said that in Edo state, our 2.5 million votes are settled.

“When he was campaigning, I was also campaigning to go to the senate, nobody gave him a chance, they sized everything, they withdrew money from circulation, they made petrol unavailable, it is only the air that is created by God that they could not withdraw from him, there was nothing sizeable to frustrate him that they did not seize but he is there and he is releasing everything and you say he will not have that vote, he must have it. I love my president with all my heart and we will vote for him with all our hearts, wherever he goes we will go.”