Nasir El-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State, claimed on Thursday that the Labour Party’s (LP) presidential nominee, Peter Obi, cannot win in northern Nigeria.
El-Rufai stated ahead of the presidential election that Obi can only expect big votes from the southeast and south-south.
According to El-Rufai, without the northern states, Obi has no chance of winning the 2023 presidential election.
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El-Rufai during an interview on TVC on Thursday said, “We are ahead. How can Peter Obi win any election? Peter Obi is polling one per cent in Sokoto; two per cent in Katsina; five per cent in Kano. That’s where the votes are. All states are not equal.
“The fact that you’re doing 70 per cent in Anambra state does not mean somebody doing 10 per cent in Kano is not better than you. Kano is four million votes that actually happen. The number of votes in Anambra is the size of one local government area in Kaduna state. So, all states are not equal.
“If you poll states and you make them equal, yes, Peter Obi will sweep the south-eastern states; he will do well in south-south; where else? He’s not polling well in the southwest other than a drop in the ocean in Lagos. He’s polling in the Christian enclaves in the north — he’s polling well — but how many are they?
“Peter Obi cannot win the election. He doesn’t have the number of states; he doesn’t have 25 per cent — the last time we checked — in more than 16 states. He can’t go anywhere.
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“Peter Obi is a Nollywood actor and that’s all he will be. This election is between the APC and PDP because they have the footprint; they have the spread. Ethnicity and religious bigotry will not take you anywhere and that’s what the Labour Party campaign is about.
“We are the only party with a candidate with broad-based support across Nigeria, and by the grace of God, we are going to win.”
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