Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has written off the popularity of the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi.
In an interview with TVC, El-Rufai said the race for the Presidency is between his Party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party. PDP, because they know the footprint. He insisted that Obi does not have the numbers to win, especially in the North. He claimed, contrary to opinion polls, that Obi is polling one per cent in Sokoto, two per cent in Katsina, and five per cent in Kano.
The Governor boasted that Religion will not save Obi, and asked: “How many Christians are in the Northern enclave?”
He admitted that Obi would do well in the South-east and South-west. But picking Obi’s Anambra State, he said the votes from one Local Government Area in Kaduna would cancel out the votes from the whole of Anambra State.
El-Rufai: Doing 70% in Anambra does nor mean that somebody doing 10% in Kano is not better than you.
“Kano is four million votes. Yes, Peter Obi will sweep South-east States. He will do well in South-south. Where else?
“He is not doing well in the South-west, other than a drop of Ocean in Lagos.
“He is polling in Christian enclave in the North, but how many are they? Ethnicity and religious bigotry will not take you anywhere. The election is APC versus PDP because they have the footprint.”
The Presidential election is scheduled for February 25, 2023. There are three front runners – Obi of the LP, Bola Tinubu of the APC and Atiku Abubakar of the PDP.
