The South West Agenda for Asiwaju (SWAGA) has fixed November 13, 2026, for the commencement of its grassroots mobilisation campaign for the re-election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the 2027 elections and the election of the Lagos State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Dr. Kadiri Obafemi Hamzat.
The initiative, tagged SWAGA 2.0, will begin with a summit on November 13, 2026, at the Blue Roof, Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos, featuring prominent APC chieftains and other resource persons.
The group said the mobilisation would extend across the six South-West states, with members also campaigning for all APC candidates contesting seats in the National Assembly and State Houses of Assembly, particularly in Lagos State.
SWAGA comprises former federal and state lawmakers as well as prominent APC chieftains across the South-West region. The group was among the early political platforms to advocate President Tinubu’s presidential ambition ahead of the 2023 general elections.
The decision to commence the new mobilisation drive followed a strategy meeting held in Lagos, presided over by the Lagos State Chairman of SWAGA, Hon. Monsuru Owolabi, a four-term member of the Federal House of Representatives.
The meeting was attended by the group’s National Secretary, Hon. Bosun Oladele and its Convener, Hon. Oladimeji Oyetunde Ojo, a former member of the House of Representatives and presently the Managing Director of the Federal Housing Authority, Abuja.
The mobilisation effort is also being championed by Senator Dayo Adeyeye, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Nigerian Ports Authority and National Chairman of SWAGA.
In a statement issued in Lagos on Monday by Aarebirin Hon. Princess Dr. Folashade Olabanji-Oba, an apex member of SWAGA and member of the Media, Publicity and Mobilisation Committee, the Lagos State Chapter said it had concluded arrangements for activities aimed at securing support for Tinubu’s re-election and Hamzat’s governorship bid.
Olabanji-Oba, who is the Honourable Commissioner, Lagos State Local Government Service Commission, said the Lagos chapter, under Hon. Owolabi’s leadership, had put the necessary structures in place for the mobilisation exercise.
She described SWAGA 2.0 as a renewed effort to rally party members and supporters behind Tinubu, drawing on the group’s previous successful political mobilisation ahead of the 2023 presidential election.
“I am happy to inform you that SWAGA is back again, bigger and better. What we are doing this time in SWAGA 2.0 is put together to ensure the return of our able and amiable great leader and father of the nation who is putting the country back to great shape,” she said.
“We are working day and night to bring our members together to shore up the needed support for H.E. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, just as we did the last time in 2023. We did it before, and we want to do it even better with a landslide victory at the polls this time.”
She said the November 13 summit would feature prominent APC members as speakers and resource persons to provide strategic direction for the group’s campaign.
Among those expected to speak are former APC National Legal Adviser, Dr. Muiz Banire; Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, Dr. Kayode Opeifa; and Professor Yemi Oke of the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos.
“We are going to bring in-house resource persons within the party to speak on different aspects of our campaign efforts. I mean the likes of Dr. Muiz Banire, Hon. Princess Remi Adebowale, Rt. Hon. Funmilayo Tejuosho, Hon. Hakeem Muniru, Hon. Princess Dr. Folashade Olabanji-Oba, Dr. Kayode Opeifa to spur us on the way forward,” she said.
She added that SWAGA would also leverage Hon. Owolabi’s experience as a four-term member of the House of Representatives and his grassroots political network to drive the exercise.
The group said the initiative would focus on building support for President Tinubu’s victorious return to office in the 2027 elections, Dr. Hamzat’s Lagos 2027 governorship ambition and all APC candidates seeking legislative seats at the federal and state levels across the South-West.