2027: Fubara backs rainbow coalition, promises Tinubu three million votes

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Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has pledged to mobilise at least three million votes for President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 elections, while assuring that the state would…

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has pledged to mobilise at least three million votes for President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 elections, while assuring that the state would deliver candidates fielded by the APC-PDP Rainbow Coalition.

Fubara made the pledge on Saturday at Tinubu’s presidential campaign rally at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium, Port Harcourt, where he declared that the coalition’s candidates would win in the state despite belonging to different political parties.

He said the mobilisation would be coordinated under the leadership of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, who is leading the Rainbow Coalition in Rivers.

“Under your guidance and direction, under the guidance and direction of our leader, the coordinator of the presidential campaign council for Rivers State, the Honourable Minister, we will campaign, mobilise our people to secure and…

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