The main Spokesperson for the Presidential Campaign Council of the Peoples Democrat Party, PDP, Senator Dino Melaye, has admitted that the candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi, is an obstacle to the ambition of his candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
Senator Melaye said that Obi poses great danger to Atiku’s 2023 aspiration. Any Vote for Obi in 2023, Melaye said, depletes Atiku’s votes. Worse, Melaye said, a vote for Obi is a plus for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu.
The Senator who spoke on the chances of Obi’s victory in 2023, said it is a no-no. He noted that the LP does not have the spread, and pointed out that it is fielding only 30 Senatorial candidates out of 109 candidates.
He appealed to Obi to come back to “his elder brother and mentor”, Atiku, so as not to allow the APC to win in 2023. “Nigerians cannot endure another four years of the APC”, Melaye said.
His words: “The euphoria of the Obidients is going down. By January, it will go down more because people will realize it is going to be a wasted vote. People will realize that he (Obi), cannot become President. People will realize that voting for Peter is voting for Tinubu.
“So, that is why I’m having a clarion call on Peter Obi, gentleman, progressive- minded, sound, that in the interest of this country, for his tomorrow, he should give his today and come back home to support his elder brother and mentor.
“Nigerians cannot afford another four years of an APC administration that will continue with insecurity, kidnapping, banditry, rise in the prices of goods and commodities in the country.”
“Nigerians must know that any vote for Peter Obi is a vote for APC. Because Peter Obi cannot make it. So, anybody that is voting for Labour Party is actually voting for Tinubu. Anybody that is campaigning for Peter Obi is actually praying and working for Tinubu to become the President.
“If you are voting for Peter, you are depleting the votes of PDP.”
The 2023 Presidential election is seen as a three-horse race between Obi, Tinubu and Atiku. In most opinion polls, Obi whose Campaign is being championed by, mostly, youths, haa beaten Tinubu and Atiku to the second and third places respectively. The candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso places a distant fourth, but his candidacy is likely to deal a blow to both Atiku and Tinubu in Kano. A former two-time Governor of Kano State, Kwankwaso, a grassroots politician, is very popular in the State.
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