HIGH Chief Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, has donated 25 vehicles to the PBAT Door-to-Door Movement in Kogi State and urged voters to re-elect President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2027 to sustain ongoing reforms.
News Point Nigeria reports that Tompolo, the Grand Patron of the movement, announced the donation through the Managing Director of Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited, Kestin Pondi, during the inauguration of the movement’s Kogi State structure in Lokoja on Monday.
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Tompolo said the vehicles would strengthen the movement’s grassroots mobilisation and support its campaign for Tinubu’s second term, urging Nigerians to give the President another opportunity to consolidate his administration’s policies and reforms.
He argued that Tinubu had demonstrated courage through major policy decisions, including the removal of the petrol subsidy, support for direct allocation of funds to local governments and allowing states to regulate electricity within their jurisdictions.
According to him, the reforms had increased the resources available to state governments to pay salaries and pensions and execute development projects.
“If somebody has done so much for you, what do you do for the person? You give him more,” Pondi said.
He urged members of the movement to take the President’s message to homes, workplaces, churches, markets and communities, stressing that Nigerians needed to give Tinubu another four years to consolidate his reforms.
Tompolo acknowledged that the reforms had brought challenges but maintained that the country would eventually benefit from them if citizens remained patient.
Speaking at the event, Kogi State Governor, Ahmed Usman Ododo, commended the movement for providing vehicles to facilitate grassroots mobilisation, urging its members to use them to reach every street, village, market and household across the state.
The governor, however, stressed that vehicles alone could not guarantee electoral success, noting that effective organisation and engagement with voters would be crucial to securing victory.
“Vehicles do not win elections, but people win elections, conventions win elections and organisations win elections,” Ododo said.
He urged the movement’s coordinators to explain the administration’s policies and projects to Nigerians, listen to their concerns and answer questions with facts rather than insults.
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Ododo explained that Tinubu inherited serious economic challenges and had chosen to confront them through reforms, adding that the country needed continuity to consolidate ongoing development efforts.
The governor also listed infrastructure and development projects in Kogi State which he said had received the President’s support, including the proposed Economic City and Free Trade Zone, as well as the Kogi International Airport project.
He further cited renewed attention to the Abuja-Lokoja-Benin Expressway, the development of universities and primary healthcare centres, road construction, support for farmers and youth and women empowerment initiatives.
Ododo said improved infrastructure, security and an enabling business environment were necessary to attract investment, create jobs and raise living standards.
He also thanked Tinubu for supporting security operations against criminality and backing efforts to establish state police, saying improved security would enable farmers to return to their farms and businesses to operate without fear.
The governor pledged to lead the mobilisation effort in Kogi State, declaring his support for the movement’s campaign ahead of the 2027 presidential election.
He urged members to engage communities peacefully and persuade voters through their messages and conduct.
Earlier, the National Coordinator of the PBAT Door-to-Door Movement, Sunday Asuku, called on residents, youths, students and farmers to mobilise support for Tinubu’s re-election.
Asuku described the President’s reforms as necessary for the country’s development and urged Nigerians to support the continuation of the administration’s policies.
He also cited the administration’s engagement with organised labour and efforts to prevent strikes by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as reasons for supporting Tinubu.
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Asuku urged members of the movement to take the campaign beyond political gatherings by engaging voters from door to door, city to city and settlement to settlement.
He said sustained grassroots engagement would be crucial to communicating the administration’s achievements, explaining its policies and persuading voters to support Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election.
