Governor Peter Mbah has secured the All Progressives Congress governorship ticket for the 2027 elections in Enugu State, winning a primary in which 397,370 party members participated across the state’s 260 wards in what party officials described as a peaceful and credible exercise.

Speaking in his acceptance address at the International Conference Centre in Enugu, Mbah said he took the nomination without entitlement, aware of the expectations attached to it and confident that his administration’s record provided a solid foundation for a second term campaign.

He said his governance philosophy, captured in the phrase “Tomorrow Is Here,” had moved from aspiration to visible reality across multiple sectors. He cited restored public confidence in security through a command and control infrastructure, ward-based smart schools, at least one functional primary healthcare center in each of the state’s 260 wards, rising agricultural yields from mechanized farming, and the revival of previously inactive industries as among the tangible changes residents could now see and experience.

Mbah listed specific investments including the revival of the Songhai Heneke Farm in Ezeagu, the resurgence of United Palm Products Limited as a functioning employer, the establishment of the Enugu Haier Factory as a 20 million dollar electronics manufacturing facility, the launch of Enugu Air as an aviation employer for local youth, and the construction of more than 1,500 kilometers of roads accompanied by five intercity transport terminals and compressed natural gas buses.

He acknowledged that President Tinubu’s economic policies had contributed to the resources available to states for development investment, and said Enugu intended to continue leveraging that environment for further progress.

The primary election committee chairman described Enugu’s APC as a well-coordinated chapter where internal democracy and consensus-building had produced a rancour-free exercise he characterized as a carnival of political participation.