The Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of repeatedly promising the Ibom Deep Sea Port without delivering it, after the President again pledged to build the project during a campaign visit to Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.
In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Osa Director, Esq., the party asked how many times the APC would approve the port, describing the latest promise as ‘another round of cheap promises’ that would not be kept.
The NDC said President Tinubu, while campaigning in Uyo on Friday, 6 November 2026, promised and granted approval for the construction of the project, which it noted had already been approved under former President Muhammadu Buhari.
According to the party, the Federal Executive Council approved the implementation of the first phase of the $4.6 billion port at its meeting on 16 December 2020, naming Bollore/Power China as the preferred bidder so that construction could begin.
The NDC added that President Tinubu, as APC presidential candidate, first promised the port during his 2023 campaign. At a rally at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium in Uyo on 30 January 2023, it said he told supporters: ‘We will do mechanised farming. We will export food from Akwa Ibom. We will build your seaport’.
The party said the promise was never fulfilled more than three years later, and likened the situation to the wait by Nigerians for uninterrupted electricity supply, saying Akwa Ibom residents were similarly waiting endlessly for a port that had become a campaign tool.
The NDC urged Nigerians to reject the APC at the polls, saying ‘a New Nigeria is possible with NDC’. The statement was dated 8 November 2026.
