Governor Ganduje Finally Opens up Over Peter Obi’s Presidency
Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has dismissed the candidacy of Peter Obi of Labour Party, says APC is not bothered by the emergence of Obi from the South-East.
The Kano state governor says Peter Obi running for the presidency as the candidate is a “good omen” for the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Ganduje disclosed this on Monday, November 21, during an interview with Channels Television .
Asked if the growing popularity of Obi may cause problems for the APC, the Kano governor said Obi as LP candidate will have little to no effect on the APC.
The effect of the emergence of Labour Party with Obi as the presidential candidate, I think it is a good omen for the APC because our major contender is the PDP.
If you look at it, what is our political investment in the south-east? The votes (referring to one of the previous elections) we got from Nassarawa LGA in Kano metropolitan were much higher than the total votes the APC got in the whole five states of the south-east.
“You can see that if there is any problem, politically in the south-east, it is the PDP that will suffer the brunt. The emergence of Obi from the south-eastern part of this country, I think it is the votes of the PDP that he will be snatched away and he is already snatching it away. For APC – it is even a good omen.
Instead of having a very close competitor, now the competitor, his attention is being divided apart from the problem they are having in the political party, especially the G5. Any political analyst will know that the emergence of the Labour Party is a minus to PDP and by implication and extrapolation, it is a plus to our great party the APC.”
Meanwhile, the Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has claimed that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi does not know the road to lead as the president of Nigeria.