Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, has said the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu will not get 25 percent of votes in the state.
Newsonline reports that Obaseki said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar will win the 2023 election in a landslide.
Obaseki who said this in an interview with a national daily added that the failure of the ruling APC has made it impossible to convince Nigerians to vote for them.
The Edo State governor added that the ruling party has lost in all ways, according to him, the only opportunity they would have had which was rigging has been made impossible by the new Electoral Act 2022, and the introduction of the BVAS.
“I think, yes, it is nice to have a competition. But I see my presidential candidate winning this election with a landslide victory. The law (Electoral Act) has improved; it is not about your capacity to mobilize security or to supposedly have INEC rig for you.
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“We are winning, honestly. Don’t forget that I have been in both parties. I mean, I have friends across both parties? Some people call me a rainbow governor. The truth is that, today, everybody knows that most Nigerians accept that the ruling party has failed Nigerians.
“They have not delivered to expectations of Nigerians and, therefore, Nigerians cannot rely on them going forward. We must have a change. Having said that, what are the options? Interestingly, the main option is PDP and PDP is the only real organic party in the country. I give you instances from Edo State.
“PDP governed Edo for about 10 years from 1999 to 2006. When they lost the elections, they were an opposition party for 12 years but remained a viable opposition. In two years of PDP coming back into power, APC has collapsed till this day.
“APC will not get 25 percent of the votes in Edo State. I am serious about it and I’m ready to bet my money on it. So, it tells you that PDP is quite an organic party. If you look at it, except in one or two states, there’s not one constituency in this country that has not produced either a PDP councilor, PDP chairman, or PDP House of Assembly member,” Obaseki said.
Obaseki added that PDP is an organic party Nigerians can identify with. he said since the party was in government from 1999 to 2015, Nigerians have neve had it bad in terms of insecurity and economic hardship.
He further said the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku, has all the experience Nigeria needs to come out from where the APC put it in the last seven years.
He said, “It is an organic party and all it needs is to be awakened. For our presidential candidate, because he has the experience of having been in this party from the beginning since its origin; the party chairman was one of those who formed the party, they understand the DNA of the party and have just come back to reignite it.
“For us, as a party, we have the experience, because we have been here for a long time. We are the only party that’s been here since 1999. Our ability to reawaken our party membership and also the citizens in the face of the very harsh and difficult environment facing them, gives us an opportunity.”
“I was reviewing some data, which showed that between 2000 and 2010, Nigeria witnessed the most outstanding economic growth. He was vice president in that era. He was the chairman of the Economic Council. So, all the great reforms, privatization, debt relief, he was there,” Obaseki added on Atiku’s qualification.
