Buba Galadima, a former ally of President Muhammadu Buhari has tipped the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabiu Musa Kwakwanso to win the 2023 presidential election by 50 million votes.
The Independent national Electoral Commission, INEC said earlier this week that over 93 million Nigerians have registered to vote in next year’s general election.
Only a few Nigerians would agree with Galadima that Kwakwanso, a former Governor of Kano state will defeat the other presidential candidates in the very critical election.
This is more so considering that the former governor is not even in the picture among those projected as frontline presidential candidates.
Close watchers of the unfolding politics ahead of the make or mar election have described the race as a three-horse race between Bola Tinubu of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Kwakwanso’s critics cite, for instance, his limited popularity in a certain part of the country just a few months into the elections, which comes up in February next year.
But Galadima said the former defense Minister will beat other presidential candidates to emerge Nigeria’s commander in chief.
Galadima who spoke on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday, the presidential candidate of the party will win all 19 Northern states and also win in the south.
The constitution requires that a presidential candidate must win 25 percent of votes cast in 24 of the 36 states in the country and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT to become president.
According to Galadima’s analyses, “The northeast is completely Kwankwaso because he will win Taraba, Adamawa, Gombe, and Bauchi, including the governorship.
“He will win the north-east, north-central, and will win the north-west. All combined, they have over 50-something million voters.
“Kwankwaso will poach the south-south, southeast, and part of the southwest.
“I assure you that all Nigerians who desire freedom, development, progress, and health services, have no other person to vote for than Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.
“PDP is not even on the ballot because its strength is in the south-east, which has been eroded by Peter Obi. The next strength of PDP is in the south-south. With Wike never supporting Atiku, the south-south is gone.”
Kwakwanso has been struggling to shore up his support base across the country, particularly after a former governor of Kano state, Ibrahim Shekarau dumped the ANPP for the PDP.
He should have teamed up with Peter Obi of LP to form a third force to stand a chance against established political parties such as APC and PDP in the 2023 elections, Kwakwanso critics said.
