- He stated that Christians and Nigerians from the south-east will not vote for a character like Atiku and will boycott the polls
Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo, has asserted that a presidential ticket of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the frontrunner and Peter Obi as his running mate in 2027 will lose.
Keyamo, who made the assertion when he appeared on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, said a lot of factors will mitigate against the success of such a pairing.
He stated that Christians and Nigerians from the south-east will not vote for a character like Atiku and will boycott the polls.
He said: “I want to do a small expo, but it’s an expo that will not help them either way. Do you know what they are working on? They want to bring Peter Obi and Atiku together.
“Once you make Obi the deputy to Atiku, the Christian demography will pull out of the 6 million votes Obi won in 2023.
“Don’t forget that the President also has a pastor who is a wife. So that Christian demographic we will snatch some of them and increase our votes”
Keyamo also claimed that Nigerian pastors won’t come out to campaign for an 80-year-old Muslim president.
“Don’t forget too that South-East demography that supported him, once it’s Atiku, they will pull out. They will not support him.
“The pastors cannot come out campaigning for an 80-year-old Muslim president. They will not do that. So they will lose that demography
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