Mascot Orji-Kalu, the Action Peoples Party (APP) governorship candidate, believes a minority party would win the Abia State governorship election in March.
Mascot, the younger brother of former Abia State governor Orji Uzor-Kalu, stated that this will be made feasible by infighting and instability inside the state’s two major political organizations, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The PDP, the state’s ruling party, recently lost its governorship candidate, Prof. Uche Ikonne, who died at the National Hospital Abuja, but Orji-Kalu believes the party will struggle to create a cohesive candidate before the 14-day deadline.
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“Abia is so polarized that the two big parties are not in play for the governorship. They have legal issues, they have candidacy issues and as you said, rest in peace professor Ikonne, with this now it’s a new tussle they have to present a new candidate in 14 days according to the INEC guideline.
“They are so broken up; can they come together and produce one unified candidate? That we very much doubt, so Abia State will have a governor from the minority party,” Uzor-Kalu said on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Friday.
He added that, while the PDP remains a significant party in the state, the fact that it is currently a “broken Party” will allow a minority party to win the governorship poll in March.
Concerning the rising profile of another minority party candidate, Alex Otti of the Labour Party, Uzor-Kalu stated that he is not frightened of Otti, adding that he has an advantage over the Labour Party flag bearer because Abians prefer a younger person as their next governor.
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“Alex is not feared by anybody, he is an economist and I am an economist. So I am not afraid of Alex. Both of us were once in APC and we left APC because of the things we foresaw in APC. He moved to Labour and I moved to Action Peoples Party.
“He’s doing his campaign, I’m doing mine but the odds favour me because the Abia people want a younger person, a more aggressive person, somebody who is different,” the APP candidate said.
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