Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano, says Peter Obi running
for the presidency as the candidate of the Labour Party (LP) is a “good omen”
for the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Ganduje spoke on Monday during an interview with Channels
Television.
In 2019, the former Anambra governor was the vice-presidential
candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), while Atiku Abubakar, former
vice-president, was the presidential candidate.
In May, Obi dumped the PDP and clinched the presidential
ticket of the LP.
Over the past weeks, political analysts have speculated that
the participation of Obi in the 2023 presidential election may affect the PDP’s
chances.
Asked if the growing popularity of Obi may cause problems
for the APC, the Kano governor said Obi as LP candidate will have little to no
effect on the APC.
“The effect of the emergence of Labour Party with Obi as the
presidential candidate, I think it is a good omen for the APC because our major
contender is the PDP,” he said.
“If you look at it,
what is our political investment in the south-east? The votes (referring to one
of the previous elections) we got from Nassarawa LGA in Kano metropolitan were
much higher than the total votes the APC got in the whole five states of the
south-east.
“You can see that if there is any problem, politically in
the south-east, it is the PDP that will suffer the brunt.
“The emergence of Obi from the south-eastern part of this
country, I think it is the votes of the PDP that he will be snatched away and
he is already snatching it away. For APC – it is even a good omen.
“Instead of having a very close competitor, now the
competitor, his attention is being divided apart from the problem they are
having in the political party, especially the G5.
“Any political
analyst will know that the emergence of the Labour Party is a minus to PDP and
by implication and extrapolation, it is a plus to our great party the APC.”
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