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Akwa Ibom State Governor, Umo Eno, has declared support for the Rainbow Coalition led by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, saying he is ready to join any political alliance working for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election in 2027.
Eno made the position known during a media chat on Saturday, where he described the coalition as a platform for mobilising support for Tinubu rather than a movement driven by party affiliation.
He said he would support the group regardless of its name, provided its central objective remained securing another term for the President.
“That Rainbow Coalition is simply saying that we support President Tinubu as the president,” the governor said.
“If I will join and be a member of any coalition whether it is Rainbow, call it any name. Any coalition that the central point is supporting the re-election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu; I am for it.”
Eno also said relations between the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom remained cordial, adding that both parties had reached an understanding on their political direction ahead of the 2027 elections.
According to him, the arrangement includes support for Tinubu, Senate President Godswill Akpabio and his own re-election as governor.
“I will work with all of them, and I think we are good on the ground in Akwa Ibom when it comes to the PDP-APC relationship,” he said.
“We have agreed on the fact that we are supporting the President, we are supporting the Senate President, we are supporting the Governor, and we have our clear understanding about those things.”
The governor’s declaration comes amid disagreements within the APC over Wike’s cross-party coalition and its role in Tinubu’s 2027 re-election campaign.
In September, APC leaders in the South-East rejected what they described as the “Rainbow (chameleon) Coalition”, insisting that the party would resist any attempt to weaken its structures in the region.
The disagreement followed the Progressive Governors’ Forum’s position that it would not support any political arrangement capable of undermining Tinubu’s re-election or the APC’s candidates in the 2027 general election.
Wike, a member of the PDP, has maintained that the coalition is a collective movement focused on securing Tinubu’s return to office, rather than a conventional party structure.
