{
  "id": 12827211,
  "title": "2027: Presidential aide claims Tinubu will win by wider margin",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/2027-presidential-aide-claims-tinubu-will-win-by-wider-margin",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-08T08:53:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Premium Times",
    "slug": "premium-times",
    "url": "https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/915396-2027-presidential-aide-claims-tinubu-will-win-by-wider-margin.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Communication, has predicted that President Tinubu will secure a wider victory margin in the 2027 presidential election compared to the 2023 election. According to Punch, Bwala made this prediction during an interview on Channels Television's Politics Today on Wednesday.\n\nTinubu won the 2023 presidential election with 8,794,726 votes, defeating the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Atiku Abubakar, by 1.81 million votes and the Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi, by 2.69 million votes. Bwala expressed confidence that Tinubu would perform better in 2027, attributing his confidence partly to growing support for Tinubu among governors elected on opposition party platforms, with several governors defecting from opposition parties to the All Progressives Congress since the 2023 election.\n\nBwala stated that the margin of gap between Tinubu and his opponents will be \"so much that you won't believe it\". Premium Times also reported that Bwala made the prediction on Channels Television's Politics Today on Wednesday, but did not provide additional details.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Punch Nigeria",
        "title": "Tinubu will win 2027 election by bigger margin — Presidential aide",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/tinubu-will-win-2027-election-by-bigger-margin-presidential-aide",
        "published": "2026-10-07T23:02:18.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}