Daniel Bwala, the spokesperson for Atiku Abubakar’s presidential campaign council, revealed on Thursday what will happen if the five disgruntled governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) known as the G-5 support the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu.
In response to the governors’ grievances, Bwala stated that electorates will not listen to the governors if they declare support for Tinubu.
The G-5 governors have vowed not to back the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku, because the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, has refused to resign.
The governors are dissatisfied with the party’s northern dominance in key positions.
There have been rumours that the governors met with Tinubu in London last month, but the outcome of the meeting has not been made public.
Bwala told the Daily Independent that he believes Atiku will win the presidential election.
He said;
Look at it from the point of view of Atiku and the PDP. Atiku maintained a national political party. The movement for PDP is carried out by mostly people from the South, which consists of the Yoruba people, Igbo people, South-South and then, the North.
Only very few northerners are driving the Atiku campaign because it is a national agenda. PDP is a party that has a national spread. It is a party that produced a Yoruba president, Fulani president and South-South president.
APC since its emergence has only produced a Fulani man. They accused him of empowering CPC members and now Asiwaju now wants to come and empower his ACN people. So, the APC is a party that is shared by just two people, Buhari and Asiwaju. The rest of the party members are nowhere to be found. So, we are not on the same level. Nobody will look at the APC and vote for them.
One of the challenges that they have right now is that if they go supporting Tinubu, is it not the APC that Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike said was cancer they will be supporting? Remember Wike said PDP has headaches and APC has cancer.
Even Ortom of Benue said APC brought destruction to his own people and that was why he joined PDP. So, will their people now listen to them to vote for APC? If they support Tinubu, that means they are only deceiving their people and are not fighting for equity, justice and fairness.
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