Festus Keyamo, the minister of state for labour and employment, has predicted that both the PDP’s Atiku Abubakar and the NNPP’s Rabiu Kwankwaso will fall short of the APC’s Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the North before the 2023 elections.
In an interview with media on Sunday in Abuja, Keyamo expressed confidence that Bola Ahmed Tinubu will win the election with a majority of the vote.
“I am optimistic that the structures that helped secure us those bloc votes are still in place”, Keyamo declared.
Both Atiku and Kwankwaso, according to the spokesman for the APC Presidential Campaign Council, cannot enjoy the same level of acceptance as Buhari.
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He claimed that Atiku Abubakar and Rabiu Kwankwaso lacked Buhari’s popularity, acceptance, street cred, and level of integrity, which made him a favourite in the North.
In a similar vein, Hannatu Musawa, the deputy spokesperson for the APC Campaign Organization, expressed confidence that the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, would greatly benefit from the bloc votes of the outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari in the election that will be held the following year.
“Block votes will be to our benefit. The election will take place before to President Buhari’s departure, hence. It doesn’t matter what the situation is; even though he plans to depart next year, it won’t happen until after the election,” she added.
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In response to Keyamo’s remarks, Atiku’s media advisor, Paul Ibe, stated that if Tinubu wants to rely on Buhari’s bloc votes, he must also be willing to share responsibility for the failings of his administration during the previous seven years.
