Dele Alake, the President-elect’s Special Adviser on Communications, has come out to explain why the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, lost the presidential race to his principal, Bola Tinubu.
The exit of the flag bearers of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, and his counterpart in the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso from the PDP, according to the APC chieftain, was the reason for the victory of his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the recently concluded presidential election.
WITHIN NIGERIA reports that Alake explained in a statement that the internal conflicts within the PDP benefited the APC.
Alake explained that Obi and Kwankwaso’s departure from the PDP divided the party’s votes in some states in the North, South-east, and South-South.
According to the president-elect’s aide, winning the election would have been difficult for the APC if Obi and Kwankwaso had not defected from the PDP.
He stated that by running on three different platforms against the ruling party, the APC’s victory was “logically and empirically inevitable.”
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