Rabiu Kwankwaso, presidential candidate of New Nigeria
Peoples Party (NNPP), says he is happy that Nyesom Wike and Dave Umahi did not
win presidential tickets of their parties.
The former governor of Kano said this on Wednesday while
speaking with journalists in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi capital.
Wike, governor of Rivers and member of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), lost the ticket to Atiku Abubakar, while Umahi, Ebonyi
governor, lost the All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket to Bola Tinubu.
Speaking on Wednesday, Kwankwaso said the choice of
candidates of the APC and PDP has given leverage for the NNPP to win the 2023
presidential election.
“Of course, I would
be very happy that people like Dave here, people like my friend, Wike, and many
others, I would have been very happy with them as [presidential candidates],”
he said.
“But we didn’t want them as an opposition to go there,
because we know these are people who have performed. You know that as an
opposition, we want people who we can just easily walk on and win. And that is
why we are so happy and comfortable now at the national level.
“In the north now, we are the party to beat. There is no
APC. APC has failed the nation. That is why we left it. PDP has failed the
nation. Eight years plus 16 years, which is 24 years, is what we are seeing
here.
“You will not
understand what we are saying because you have a good governor. The security is
solid; the economy is not as bad as elsewhere and so on and so forth. But those
of us coming from the north, we know what is happening — and even in parts of
the east and across the country.
“So, we are so happy that the strong ones could not get or
buy the tickets during the primary elections.”
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