The spokesman for the All Progressive Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, has said the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, and his counterpart in the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Dr Rabiu Kwankwaso, lack the street credibility to win the North ahead of the 2023 elections.
Keyamo said the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu would secure bloc votes to win the election because Atiku and Kwankwaso lack the popularity test in the North.
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment said, “I am optimistic that the structures that worked to get us those bloc votes are still with us.”
The Senior Advocate of Nigeria also said both Atiku and Kwankwaso cannot have the kind of acceptability that President Muhammadu Buhari enjoys.
“Atiku Abubakar and Rabiu Kwankwaso do not have the popularity, acceptability, street credibility and the kind of integrity that Buhari has that made him a rave in the North,” he said.
Reacting to Keyamo’s statement, Atiku’s media adviser, Paul Ibe, said if Tinubu hopes to ride on the bloc votes of Buhari, he must equally be prepared to share in the failures of his government in the last seven years.