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From Stanley Uzoaru, Owerri
The Southeast chapter of Renewed Hope for Greater Nigeria (RHGN), yesterday, announced plans to deploy a 50-member “Booth Army” at every polling unit across the zone ahead of the 2027 general elections, as part of what it described as a comprehensive grassroots mobilisation structure for President Bola Tinubu.
Speaking at a world press conference in Owerri, the Imo State capital, Deputy National Leader (Southeast), Mazi Franklin Ngoforo, said the group had completed its organisational structures from state to ward level in all five Southeast states and was moving to inaugurate the polling unit teams in the coming weeks.
“We announce, today, that in the coming weeks, RHGN Southeast will inaugurate a 50-man Booth Army at every single polling booth across the Southeast,” Ngoforo said. “This is not a symbolic gesture. It is a serious, disciplined, grassroots deployment whose mandate is twofold: the mobilisation of voters for President Tinubu, and the protection of the mandate that Ndigbo will cast on election day.”
He added that the group had set a target to “deliver four million votes for President Bola Tinubu in the Southeast come 2027,” describing it as a goal based on existing structure rather than speculation.
RHGN also announced the immediate creation of Campus Wings in all tertiary institutions in the Southeast, including federal and state universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education. A parallel Market Wings initiative was also declared for major markets across the zone.
“Our youths are not spectators in this project,” Ngoforo said. “Our market women and men are the backbone of this zone’s economy and the truest barometer of how policy affects everyday life. We are organising them not to be spoken for, but to speak for themselves, ward by ward, market by market.”
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The group said the mobilisation was rooted in what it called the Southeast’s “genuine stake” in the current administration.
In making its case, RHGN listed several actions by the Tinubu administration it said benefited the region. These included progress toward the creation of an additional state for the Southeast, the advanced stage of implementation of state police, increased FAAC allocations to states, implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act and host community funds, and the establishment and funding of the South East Development Commission.
On infrastructure, the group pointed to ongoing work on the Enugu/Makurdi road, the Enugu/Onitsha Expressway, and the Enugu/Umuahia highway, as well as “dozens of other federal roads across our zone.”
On security, Ngoforo said markets that previously observed sit-at-home orders were now opening through the week, attributing the change to “deliberate” collaboration between the federal government and Southeast governors.
The press conference comes two weeks after RHGN National Leader, Hon. Calistus Anyanwu, unveiled the movement in Abuja as a structure to “defend and advance” support for President Tinubu.
Ngoforo said the Southeast had, for too long, been asked for political loyalty “without evidence being offered in return” and urged Ndigbo to “weigh this record with clear eyes as 2027 approaches.”
“This is not the season to be bystanders in a government that has, in word and in deed, demonstrated that it means well for our people,” he said. “Let 2027 be remembered as the year our people spoke with one voice, in defence of a government that finally spoke for us,” Ngoforo stated.
