2023: It Will Be Extremely Difficult For APC To Win Presidency – Party Chieftain

Many Nigerians have lost faith in the All Progressives Congress (APC), and the party may struggle to prevail in the general election of 2023.

Dr. Mustapha Muhammad Inuwa, the recently-retired Secretary to the Katsina State Government, expressed this opinion in an interview.

He claimed that many people had great hopes and even believed that the nation’s problems would soon be a thing of the past when the APC took office in 2015, replacing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Contrary to expectations, the party did not live up to the hype and actually put the population through further hardships.

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He claims that many Nigerians have experienced hunger, insecurity, and economic hardships under the APC administration and that urgent action must be taken to solve these issues if the APC is to triumph in next year’s elections.

In order to do this, Inuwa argued that if nothing changes before the 2023 elections, it will be difficult for the APC to win the popular vote and support.

Inuwa in an interview with Newsmen said: “I interact with people on a daily basis in my house and in my office. Honestly, people are not happy with APC as a party and government both at state and national level. This is the truth.

“I was past Chairman of the APC. I served as secretary to the governor (Aminu Masari) for over seven years. So naturally, I should want APC to succeed but the truth is, it is unfortunate really.

“When APC came in as a government, there were a lot of expectations by the people. In fact, I would say unrealistic expectations. Many people believed that with PDP out and APC in, all problems were considered solved but unfortunately APC as a government experienced a lot of challenges. Some internal, some global, especially issues to do with revenue. We relied largely on what we generated from the sales of oil and the price kept coming down.

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“The issue of insecurity also persist especially in Northwest, North Central and to some extent, southern parts of the country. These affected personal commercial activities of our people.

“So honestly, APC was not fortunate. A lot of things turned out contrarily to what people expected. So, people are not happy.

The APC leader continued by bemoaning the growing prices of food and other necessities in Nigeria as a result of the unsettling inflation.

He bemoaned the fact that although costs are rising, less money is available for people to meet their requirements.

He said, “The life now, almost everything increases by three to four folds when you come to cost of living. Take for instance, the cost of a bag of rice, when we came on board, I think the 50kg bag was sold for about N8,000 per bag but now it is being sold at N33,000 in this area and at about N40,000 in Abuja axis. So, this is the same in almost every aspect.

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“The sources of income have also gone down and people are not even getting money to buy things anymore. It is one thing for cost of things to be high and people can afford it and it is another thing when things are high and unaffordable. So many people honestly live without food; they can’t take their children to school and can’t attend to their health challenges.

“All our commitments have become in many cases impossible to meet and the issue is even worst especially in this part of the country. In Katsina and other states in the northwest people have lost hope in the government and the security agencies to tackle the situation.

“So, honestly, people are not happy and unless of course something radical, something serious happens especially to do with this issue of insecurity, high cost of living from now till election, it will be extremely difficult for APC to win.”

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