Dele Momodu, director of strategic communications of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign council, says Atiku
Abubakar is the most experienced candidate in the race.
In a statement issued on Monday, Momodu explained how
Abubakar will record the votes that will help him win the presidential
election.
He said the former vice president would win in most of the
northern and southern states.
“The bridges required to cross to victory have taken Atiku
30 years to build,” the statement reads.
“A presidential candidate
cannot depend totally on votes from outside his home base to win this election.
“It is a fact of history that whenever the south produced
two strong candidates, the dominant northern candidate won, such as in 1979 and
1983, Obafemi Awolowo and Nnamdi Azikiwe versus Shehu Shagari.
“Bola Tinubu is far weaker today in the south-west and
Awolowo was by far more formidable, while Obi is the new Azikiwe (the first
Governor-General and President of Nigeria) in the South-east, and Kwankwaso is
the current Aminu Kano.
“Atiku Abubakar will
dominate the north-east, north-west, north-central and south-south. Tinubu may
pick a few states in the North and South-west but won’t have enough to win.
“Tinubu has not been able to lock down the entire South West
not to talk of the whole of Nigeria. Over-reliance on bribing the electorates
will fail. Hoping to rig brazenly will also fail spectacularly.
“I repeat, the entire North and the south-south will make
Atiku the next President. Atiku will still be competitive in the south-east and
south-west. Wherever Obi is number one in the East, Atiku will be number two.
Wherever Tinubu is number one in the South West, Atiku will be number two or
vice versa.”
Momodu said Atiku would “be the first to cross the line of
recording 25 per cent in 24 states”.
He said the former vice president would get 25 per cent
“automatically” in the 19 states of the north and “will pick six in south-south
automatically”.
“He will pick more than 25 per cent in all of the five
states in the South-east, a traditional base of PDP, and same in the
South-west,” Momodu said.
“Wherever Obi is number one, Atiku will be number two or
vice versa. I do not know of any state PDP that will not record 25 per cent and
eventually win the overall popular votes.
“The North will not vote a ‘fake Muslim’ in the name of a
pretentious and mischievous Muslim/Muslim ticket. The scam is dead on arrival.
“The north-east will
never vote for a number two position when they’ve been chasing the number one
since 1966. The North West will not abandon an Atiku for a Tinubu who’s well
known for his iron grip on Lagos state since 1999.
“The south-west itself knows it has the most controversial
and palpably weakest candidate in this race this time and would humbly and readily
accept its fate with equanimity.”
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