Keyamo rubbishes Atiku, Kwankwaso, says they’ll fail popularity test in North
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has said both presidential candidates of the PDP and the NNPP, Atiku Abubakar, Rabiu Kwankwaso, will fail the popularity test against the APC’s Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the North ahead of the 2023 elections.
Keyamo stated this while speaking to journalists on Sunday in Abuja.
The Minister, who is also a spokesman for the APC Presidential Campaign Council, was optimistic his principal would secure bloc votes to win the election.
He 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 Buhari enjoys.
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“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.
In the same vein, the deputy spokesperson of APC Campaign Organisation, Hannatu Musawa, expressed optimism that the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, would benefit immensely from the bloc votes of the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari in next year’s poll.
“The bloc votes will work to our advantage. This is because the election will happen before President Buhari leaves. Whatever the case may be, even though he is going to leave next year, it is not going to happen till after the election,” she said.
Reacting to the 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.
Keyamo rubbishes Atiku, Kwankwaso, says they’ll fail popularity test in North
