Tinubu Targets 1.2 Million Votes in Ondo, More Than Triple His 2023 Tally

President Bola Tinubu’s re-election campaign has set a target of at least 1.2 million votes in Ondo State, more than three times the number he received there in the 2023 presidential election.

Vice President Kashim Shettima announced the target on Tinubu’s behalf at the All Progressives Congress presidential campaign rally in Akure on Wednesday, 11 November.

Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, who is coordinating Tinubu’s campaign in the state, told the rally that the APC would deliver at least one million votes.

Tinubu won Ondo in 2023 with 369,924 votes, or 67.5 per cent of the vote. Reaching 1.2 million would require roughly 830,000 more votes than he received in that election, News About Nigeria reports.

Speaking at the Akure rally, Shettima argued that the administration’s economic reforms had given state governments more money to spend on infrastructure and public services.

He said Ondo received more than 22 per cent more from the Federation Account in the first nine months of 2026 than in the same period last year.

The scale of the target puts voter mobilisation at the centre of the APC’s Ondo campaign. Even if Tinubu won every ballot cast for president in the state at the last election, he would still have fallen short of 1.2 million votes.