Edo North APC senate candidate, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole asserted on Friday that the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu will win the 2023 presidential election.
He submitted that the mistakes that had according to him been made by the PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar will be turned to APC’s advantage.
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Team@orientactualmags.com learned the former APC National Chairman, who said this while talking to State House correspondents after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, submitted that Atiku already had his chances dwindled by doing away with those who ought to be his main backers .
‘You now have the G-5 Governors who said the understanding we reached in Asaba, voluntarily, both by PDP and APC governors, they stand by that agreement, stating that leaders must have character and that if you are not yet a President and you are not obeying agreement, and Nigerians are talking of national unity you disobeyed the provision of your party constitution, which talks about rotation in order to service that unity and you can go to some parts of the country and say don’t vote for Igbo, don’t vote for Yoruba.
Those are very damaging statements. It would have been better if you say don’t vote for this person, Obi, don’t vote for Tinubu, that is fine, you talk to their persons, but when you talk about race; don’t vote for Igbo man. So if he’s Igbo, no matter how good, he’s a bad man in his eyes, if he’s Yoruba, no matter how good, he’s a bad man in his eyes, at a time when we need national unity.
So, if you ask me how we are doing, we are doing very well. Whereas the other is now battling with five governors that backed out and you find out how many governors they have, we have 23. Now, if you add 23 to five, I’m not saying the five are with us, but we have 23 with five, I guess that’s 28. If you subtract 28 from 36, it means only eight governors, in fact, seven, because the other one in APGA is not there.
So, while he has seven governors working for him, we have 23 working for us and we have five who are neutral. You know when you are voting, when I was at ILO, you vote for, against or you abstain. Abstinence is as good as voting against.
So, however you look at it, our campaign is going smoothly and the message is very clear. It’s very clear, it cannot be better. You saw us yesterday in Owerri. For me that was perhaps one of the best outings we’ve had. You listened to our candidate, you listened to those who spoke in Owerri, some of them offered to contribute towards the campaign because their concerns have been addressed by the APC candidate, because election is about interest, whoever will address your interests, not religious sentiment, not ethnic sentiment, because hunger doesn’t have religious affiliation, unemployment, do they have religious affiliation, whoever will address your concerns, if you are a trader, whoever would make sure that the ports work more efficiently, you don’t have to pay toll to all kinds of people, that is the kind of person you want.
Government is about providing those assets. We must talk about enabling environment and our candidate has laid out how he will do it’ he said.
Governor Nyesome Wike of Rivers state heads the G-5 Governors, who are all members of the PDP.
Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, Wike had sought to get the PDP presidential nomination but lost this to Atiku in the presidential primary election held at the Eagle Square, Abuja in May.
The Rivers state governor had later sought to get named as Vice Presidential candidate but Atiku eventually chose Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, a development that got him incensed.
Defection rumours had since then swirled around Wike and the meetings he had held with LP and APC bigwigs accentuated insinuations that he was planning to leave the PDP.
He also earlier this week had Oshiomole invited to Rivers state to inaugurate a flyover project.
A member of his group, Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state , had also a few weeks ago, invited Dr Kayode Fayemi to Ibadan where he inaugurated a road project -Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980. Thank you
