Ambassador-designate Reno Omokri has said anyone thinking President Bola Tinubu can be defeated in 2027 is delusional.

Omokri said this after Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State defected from the New Nigeria Peoples Party to the ruling All Progressives Congress.

According to him, if the opposition could not defeat then-candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in 2023 with just 20 All Progressives Congress Governors behind him, what makes them think they can do so with 30 Governors now behind him?

"Ponder on that for a moment.

"Some Nigerians who are still living in la-la land do not really understand the political implications of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano taking down the flag of the New Nigeria Peoples Party.

"Soon, the Kwankwasiyya cap will be replaced by the Bola Tinubu infinity cap amongst the powers that be in Kano.
Let me break down the seismic impact of what is happening.

"Kano had approximately 6 million registered voters in 2023, of whom 1,702,005 turned out to vote in the 2023 Presidential election. The highest of any state.

"Now, in 2023, then-candidate Bola Tinubu lost Kano State because:
He was not an incumbent.

"The Governor of the state who supported him was outgoing, and therefore seen as a lame duck.

"Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso ran for President and naturally won the state against a non-incumbent front-runner.

"All of those dynamics have changed. And they changed in favour of the President.

"Even as he is disappointed that Governor Abba Yusuf left his party, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso is not necessarily against the President.

"He is certainly not for any other aspirant for the office of the presidency.

"And quite frankly, EVERY Governor in Nigeria is either openly or covertly happy with the President.

"Their main issue prior to the May 29, 2023, ascension of Tinubu to the Presidency was a lack of funds to run their states. By removing fuel subsidies and almost tripling the federal allocation, President Tinubu has solved that problem.

"And now, his rivals are saying that they will reverse his decision! Do you know what that automatically means? It means the states will inevitably receive less federal funding if those aspirants win in 2027.

"That is the most impolitic, amateurish, and quite frankly self-defeating criticism that President Tinubu's rivals have made. And it has sealed their fate in 2027.

"For example, while Kano got ₦3.1 billion as statutory allocation in August 2022, under General Buhari, with the total distributable funds for the Federal, States, and Local Governments coming in at ₦905.5 billion, for February 2025, Kano got eight times that amount, at ₦24.63 billion, while Kano Local Governments received ₦20.4 billion.

"Now, tell me which Governor in his right mind will want the overthrow of the Tinubu policy of ending fuel subsidies? That will take them back to the era of owing salaries.

"Certainly, that type of rhetoric has made Peter Obi and every other Presidential aspirant anathema in the eyes of Governor Abba Yusuf and his colleagues.

"Beyond that, President Tinubu met an inflation rate of 22.41% when he assumed office on May 29, 2023, and has reduced it to 15.15%. He met a foreign reserve of $35 billion and has increased it to $46.7 billion as of January 2026. He met a total debt of $113.42 billion; today it has reduced to $97 billion.

"Even more importantly, in less than two years, President Tinubu added $67 billion to Nigeria's GDP, moving us from a ₦269.29 trillion economy on May 29, 2023, when he became President, to ₦372.8 trillion today.

"This is even as S&P Global Ratings has upgraded Nigeria's economic outlook to "positive" from "stable", citing the success of the Tinubu reforms, which, through the Tax Reform Act, have added more revenue streams to our economy by widening the tax base.
Finally, he stabilised the Naira, which is now, according to Business Insider, among the world's best-performing currencies for 2025, a fact that was reiterated by Fitch Ratings.

"This type of macroeconomic progress does not happen by accident. It comes strategically. It is the result of good leadership. And that is why on Tuesday, January 20, 2026, the International Monetary Fund said, and I quote, 'Nigeria's macroeconomic reforms are beginning to yield results'.

"Under these circumstances, I feel sorry for anyone wasting their time and money to contest against President Bola Tinubu in 2027. A man who has turned Nigeria's 36 state governors from beggars to braggarts can't be beaten!
If you could not defeat him when things were not rosy in 2023, why waste your efforts when he has united the political class behind him by delivering on his campaign promises?

"The President certainly has Kano in the kitty now. The sympathy votes that Peter Obi got in the North have been frittered away by his Yes Daddy "religious war" leaked audio, as well as his consistent de-marketing of Nigeria at any fora he finds himself abroad and at home.

"He certainly will not get the African Democratic Congress ticket. And he can't accept being anyone's running mate without irreparably damaging himself for even ejections beyond 2027.

"And the ADC is unlikely to make any reasonable headway with no Governor in its fold.
It is clear as day, President Tinubu will be re-elected in 2027, God sparing his life."