2023: South East Not Important For APC- Ganduje

Abdullahi Ganduje, Governor of Kano State has disclosed that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC does not require votes from the South east part of the country to win the 2023 presidential election.
Ganduje however emphasised the importance of his state in determining who wins the presidency next year. Ganduje, is a strong ally of APC presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu
Governor Ganduje apparently dismissed the chances of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP who has been gaining high momentum as one of the three candidates projected to win the presidency iin 2023.
Judging by past elections in the country, three states are critical for any party to win the presidency during an election, and these states are currently receiving the focus of political parties and their strategists.
Apart from Kano, Lagos and Rivers state are major determinants of who emerges the country’s president during election because of their block votes.
According to figures released ahead of the general election next year by the Independent National Electoral Commission,  INEC, these three states, due to their population have the highest number of certified voters.
It was based on these figures that Gabduje, said on Tuesday during a one million march for Tinubu in Kano that the APC presidential Flagbearer will received five million votes from the state to enable let him win the critical election.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today, Governor Ganduje said on Tuesday that wining the state is more crucial to winning the presidential election, saying votes from one local governments in the state are more than the entire votes from the southeast region of the country. The state has 44 LGAs, the highest in the country.
The governor said the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has more to lose to the rising profile of Obi than APC because the region is predominantly PDP. His party, APC, is not entirely focusing on the region to win, he said.
According to him, “What is our political investment in the South-East? The votes we got from Nasarawa Local Government in Kano Metropolitan Area was much higher than the total votes APC got in the entire five states of the South-East.
“So, you can see that if there is any problem politically in the South-East, it is the PDP that will suffer the brush. So, the emergence of Obi from the South-eastern part of this country I think it’s the votes of PDP that he will snatch away and is already snatching away.
“For APC, I think it is even a good omen. Instead of having a very close competitor, now the attention of the competitor has been diverted.”