The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council has unveiled its 2027 manifesto titled “Transiting from Reforms to Shared Prosperity,” emphasizing security, economic growth, and governance reforms.
The APC administration pledged to significantly strengthen Nigeria’s security architecture by recruiting 28,000 additional military personnel and 50,000 police officers. Plans also include completing the infrastructure and equipping of four new Army Divisions in Makurdi, Ilorin, Jalingo, and Benin City, alongside sustaining intelligence-led operations against insurgents and kidnapping rings. To address criminal hideouts in forests, the government intends to deploy trained forest guards, agro-rangers, and mining marshals to protect agricultural belts, grazing routes, and natural reserves.
Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, highlighted that the 2027 manifesto rests on four core pillars: a secure and resilient nation; improved quality of life; energy, infrastructure, and economic growth; and effective, accountable governance. He acknowledged that the economic reforms implemented since 2023 have placed real pressure on households, but defended the removal of the fuel subsidy and foreign exchange market reforms as courageous, necessary steps to secure the nation's future rather than postponing problems for political convenience.
The manifesto commits the government to specific targets by 2031, including scaling power generation toward 10,000 megawatts, achieving an annual economic growth rate of six percent, halving youth unemployment and out-of-school children, and deploying seven million additional electricity meters. It also outlines expanding health insurance to cover 40 percent of the population, ensuring functional primary health centers in at least 90 percent of facilities, and building 200,000 homes under a mass social housing scheme. Furthermore, officials emphasized that progress will be tracked on a public dashboard to maintain accountability.
Minister of Solid Minerals, Dele Alake, defended the administration's structural adjustments, asserting that no previous Nigerian leader since 1960 has undertaken such radical economic changes despite heavy political costs and resistance from powerful interests who previously exploited the old subsidy and forex systems.
Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Atiku Bagudu, noted that the country has recorded positive growth since 2023, though ongoing efforts remain focused on ensuring that economic prosperity directly benefits everyday households.
Minister of Information, Mohammed Idris, pointed to tangible impacts of the administration's policies, citing infrastructure projects like the Abuja-Kano road, improved security along major travel routes, and the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), which has supported 1.6 million students. He also noted that Nigeria has been successfully delisted from the Financial Action Task Force grey list as inflation trends downward, laying a firm foundation for sustainable national prosperity.