Nasir el-Rufai, governor of
Kaduna state, says President Muhammadu Buhari will win the 2019 election
without the new Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP).
He said this during an interview
with state house correspondents on Tuesday.
El-Rufai said since 2003, Buhari
had been winning elections in Kwara, Adamawa, Kano and Sokoto states where most
of the nPDP members come from.
“What are we talking about? Who
are these new PDP people that are threatening? This is Kwara, Kano, Sokoto,
Adamawa, Rivers but I don’t think Amaechi is part of them. So let’s take these
four states, go back to 2003 and check,” he said.
“Buhari then under ANPP won in
all these four states. Go back to 2007, Buhari won in these four states. Even
when Shekarau was running as a presidential candidate in 2011, Buhari defeated
him in Kano. And, I have no doubt in my mind that even if the people
threatening to leave, it will have absolutely no impact on the presidential
election, the president will win Sokoto, Kwara and Adamawa easily.
“Kano is already in the bag, I
mean if you saw the crowd that welcomed the president without the former
governor KwanKwaso, Kano has always been the president’s base. To me that is
not the issue, the issue is that they have written, they have expressed
grievances, some of the grievances are legitimate and should be looked into.
“But to threaten to leave the
party is neither here nor there. If they are honest with themselves they know
that President Buhari will win those states with or without them. But if you
have a grievance, we are a party and politics is a game of addition not
subtraction, so we don’t want to loose anyone.
“So, I think those the letters
were addressed to ought to study it and look into what is reasonably possible
to accommodate them because politics as I said is a game of addition.”
In a letter signed by Olagunsoye
Oyinlola and Kawu Baraje, leaders of the group, nPDP requested to meet the
president within seven days.
Oyinlola resigned his membership
of the APC less than 24 hours after the letter was submitted at the APC
headquarters in Abuja and relinquished his position as chairman of the National
Identity Management Commission (NIMC).
Their letter had generated reactions
across the country, with Uche Secondus, chairman of the PDP, saying his party
would reach out to the aggrieved nPDP leaders.
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