APC unveils Tinubu’s 2027-2031 agenda, promises 50,000 police officers

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has promised to recruit 50,000 additional police officers, enlist 28,000 military personnel and deliver 200,000 houses if President Bola Tinubu secures a second term in 2027.
The commitments are contained in the party's newly unveiled manifesto, titled Renewed Hope Agenda 2.0, which outlines its proposed policies and development targets for the 2027-2031 period.
The document, made available on Tuesday, reorganises the Tinubu administration's existing eight-point agenda into four pillars covering national security, citizens' welfare, infrastructure and economic growth, as well as governance and accountability.
Under its security plan, the APC proposed establishing four additional Army divisions in Makurdi, Ilorin, Jalingo and Benin City, alongside recruiting and training 28,000 more military personnel.
It also pledged to deploy 50,000 newly recruited police officers and work towards a police-to-citizen ratio of one officer to 400 Nigerians.
Other proposed measures include introducing body cameras and digital policing systems, completing electronic surveillance of mapped borders and strengthening community policing.
In his message accompanying the manifesto, Tinubu said his administration had taken difficult decisions since assuming office in 2023, including removing the petrol subsidy, unifying the foreign exchange rate and implementing tax reforms.
“When you entrusted me with the mandate to renew hope in 2023, I offered honesty over easy promises. We confronted long-standing economic realities head-on,” the President said.
He acknowledged that Nigerians expected more tangible improvements in their daily lives, adding that the next phase of his administration would focus on translating economic reforms into better living conditions.
“The coming years must focus on tangible improvements: the food on our tables, the power in our homes, the security of our families, and the dignity of meaningful work,” he said.
On housing and social welfare, the APC promised to establish the Tinubu Mass Social Housing Scheme across the country's 774 local government areas, targeting the delivery of 200,000 homes through the programme, mortgage financing and private developers.
The party also pledged to halve youth unemployment by 2031, provide skills training for two million young Nigerians and expand digital literacy programmes to reach 30 million people.
In education, it promised to halve the number of out-of-school children by 2031 and recruit 20,000 additional teachers.
The health sector is also expected to receive attention, with the APC targeting health insurance coverage for 40 per cent of Nigerians and a reduction in out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure from 71 per cent to below 50 per cent.
The manifesto further proposed increasing the proportion of functional primary healthcare centres nationwide to 90 per cent.
On electricity, the party said it would work towards raising available power generation to 10,000 megawatts, while expanding metering and strengthening transmission and distribution networks.
It also promised to improve clean energy access in underserved communities and establish at least one flagship industrial hub in each of the six geopolitical zones.
The APC projected that annual economic growth would rise to six per cent under the proposed second-term programme.
It also promised to more than double non-oil export earnings and create one million export-linked jobs for young Nigerians through talent and services exports by 2030.
The party said priority road, rail, port and airport projects would be completed to improve trade and reduce transportation costs.
On governance, the manifesto pledged to strengthen the justice system, fight corruption, improve public service delivery and deepen local government autonomy.
It proposed extending digital case management to magistrate courts and completing the digitalisation of court processes nationwide by 2029.
The party also promised to publish allocations to all 774 local government councils and move federal ministries and agencies towards end-to-end digital public services.
To strengthen accountability, the APC said every campaign commitment would have a baseline, target, cost, responsible official and reporting date.
It added that implementation would be monitored through public dashboards and independent verification.
“A manifesto is only as strong as the promises a citizen can check,” the document stated.
The party also outlined four implementation measures, including prioritising the recovery of public resources, completing existing projects before starting new ones, attaching measurable targets to commitments and allowing citizens to monitor government performance.
Meanwhile, the manifesto listed several economic indicators as achievements of the Tinubu administration since 2023.
These included foreign reserves of $55.3bn as of September 2026, GDP growth of 4.43 per cent in the second quarter of 2026 and inflation of 14.63 per cent in September.
It also claimed that N18.72tn was shared among the three tiers of government through the Federation Account Allocation Committee in the first half of 2026, compared with N6.76tn during the corresponding period in 2023.
The APC said the four-pillar framework was designed to consolidate the administration's original Renewed Hope Agenda and guide its proposed second-term policies.
Tinubu, while seeking Nigerians' support for another term, acknowledged that his administration had more work to do.
“The work is far from complete, and I ask once more for your partnership. Let us turn these hard-won reforms into lasting prosperity and build the Nigeria of our highest aspirations,” he said.