‘Peter Obi is a minor issue, PDP is our main opposition’ – Ganduje
Kano State governor Abdullahi Ganduje says the All Progressives Congress (APC) is not losing sleep over Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi’s emergence as a contender for 2023 election.
Peter Obi will be contesting against APC candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Peoples Democratic Party flagbearer Atiku Abubakar among others, in the 2023 presidential election.
Speaking during an interview with Channels Television on Monday, Ganduje said the growing popularity of Obi will not cause problems for the APC, adding that 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.”
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.
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