Datti Baba-Ahmed, the vice-presidential candidate of the
Labour Party (LP), says no candidate will replicate the votes polled by
President Muhammadu Buhari during the 2015 elections in Kano state.
Speaking in an interview on Channels Television on Tuesday,
the LP vice-presidential candidate said his party is gaining support in the
northern part of the country.
In the 2015 presidential election, Buhari, then candidate of
the All Progressives Congress (APC), scored 1,903,999 votes in Kano while
former president Goodluck Jonathan polled 215,779 votes.
Buhari was declared the winner of the elections after he
scored a total of 15,424,921 votes to defeat incumbent Jonathan who polled
12,853,162 votes.
The huge number of votes garnered by Buhari in Kano was
instrumental to his victory.
Making reference to previous polls, Baba-Ahmed said the
hopes of APC and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to get large votes from the
north in the coming elections have been dashed.
He said the LP would win the polls while the PDP and APC
would be the runners-up.
Baba-Ahmed said the presidential campaign of LP has moved
beyond social media and currently gaining momentum in the northern region.
“We have women rising to the challenge now more than we
thought. We have the youths uniting particularly in the north,” he said.
“I’m talking about Sokoto, Kano, Bauchi, and Niger. The
women in Niger were just too good for us. All over the north.
“Gombe was phenomenal. Adamawa was far beyond our
expectations. We went to southern Adamawa, southern Gombe, and southern Borno.
The energy in the youths in southern Borno is very unbelievable.
“The northern
Nigerian votes that were waiting to make up the difference which either of the
two other runners-up (referring to APC and PDP) were hoping to get, turned out
that they are not getting it.
“The heavy punchers – Kano, for example – is now a watershed
of what its votes used to be. In 2015, with the 1.9 million votes of Kano,
nobody can aspire to have that which of course Buhari punched Jonathan with the
final blow.
“Nobody is going to get that in Kano. We have pulled a lot
of weight beyond the comprehension of the two runners-up.”
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That figure was manipulate and rigged for Buhari and that's what all of us are suffering today. That was pure rigged
ReplyDeletewas it also rigged in 2019? Una go cry. Jagaban is connected across the Nation even Kwankwaso will step down soon
Deleteoohoo how that one concern me,we all go the same market,same road,bought fuel same price queue for ATM ,PVC and fuel ,even shared the insecurity together so if u like vote Buhari PROMAX na all of us go suffer
DeleteEven they no get 1.9m vote you don't think of getting 100 vote
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