With barely two weeks to the presidential election, the
Peoples Democratic Party Campaign Council has tipped its candidate, Atiku
Abubakar to win the poll, predicting him to garner majority votes in the entire
North and the South-South zone of the country.
This Director, Strategic Communication, National Election
Management Committee of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council, Dele Momodu,
stated this on Wednesday in Abuja.
In a statement entitled, “How Atiku Abubakar will become the
next president of Nigeria,” Momodu described polls and surveys predicting
victory for other candidates as fundamentally flawed, due to what he called
their “over-reliance on technology in a largely illiterate population.”
Justifying his reason for an Atiku’s victory, the publisher
reckoned that “A presidential candidate cannot depend totally on votes from
outside his home base to win this election. It is a fact of history that
whenever the south produced two strong candidates, the dominant northern
candidate won, such as in 1979 and 1983, Obafemi Awolowo and Nnamdi Azikiwe
versus Shehu Shagari.”
He noted that the victory of the PDP is based on
“established political history of Nigeria and empirical data,” arguing that
“Bola Tinubu is far weaker today in the South-West and Awolowo was by far more
formidable, while Obi is the new Azikiwe (the first Governor General and
President of Nigeria) in the south-east, and Kwankwaso is the current Aminu
Kano.”
He continued, “Atiku Abubakar will dominate the North-East,
North-West, North-Central and South-South. Tinubu may pick a few states in the
North and South-West but won’t have enough to win. The bridges required to
cross to victory has taken Atiku 30 years to build. Tinubu has not been able to
lock down the entire South-West not to talk of the whole of Nigeria.”
That said, the former presidential aspirant on the platform
of the PDP, warned those bent on rigging their way to victory to perish the
thought, stressing that “Over-reliance on bribing the electorates will fail.
Hoping to rig brazenly will also fail spectacularly. I repeat, the entire North
and the South-South will make Atiku the next President. Atiku will still be
competitive in the South-East and South-West. Wherever Obi is number one in the
east, Atiku will be number two. Wherever Tinubu is number one in the
South-West, Atiku will be number two or vice versa.”
Brimming with confidence, the PDP chieftain insisted that
the former vice president “will be the first to cross the line of recording 25
per cent in 24 states. He will get 25 per cent automatically in the 19 states
of the northern region and will pick six in south-south automatically. He will
pick more than 25 per cent in all of the five states in the south-east, a
traditional base of PDP, and same in the south-west.”
Momodu further predicted that “Wherever Obi is number one,
Atiku will be number two or vice versa. I do not know of any state PDP will not
record 25 per cent and eventually win the overall popular votes. Nigeria has
become so divided that the peoples are going to vote majorly along ethnic lines
as well as primordial sentiments.”
For the umpteenth time, Momodu argued that “The North will
not vote a ‘fake Muslim’ in the name of a pretentious and mischievous
Muslim/Muslim ticket. The scam is dead on arrival.
“The North-East will never vote for a number two position
when they have been chasing the number one since 1966. The North-West will not
abandon an Atiku for a Tinubu who is well known for his iron grip on Lagos
State since 1999. The South-West itself knows it has the most controversial and
palpably weakest candidate in this race this time and would humbly and readily
accept its fate with equanimity.
“It will also dawn on the South-East that Obi’s raving
popularity alone cannot carry him across the winning line and many of their
traditional voters will willingly settle for Atiku Abubakar and Ifeanyichukwu
Okowa, the cerebral man and gentle giant of Igbo ancestry.”
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ReplyDeleteIt's a shame for this man to believed that Atiku will win this election when it's very glaring that it's d turned of d south to produce d next president
ReplyDeleteCalculation based on how to turn Atiku pocket outside
ReplyDeleteDele momodu....your a disgrace to your people and yourself... that's how you people sold Abiola out...kai
ReplyDeleteYou mean after 8yrs of fulani man another fulani man will take over never Atiku go and rest
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ReplyDeleteAtiku can only be president in Cameroon not Nigeria, point of correction.
ReplyDeleteThem never chop this one money finish, dele momodu na scam, he sha wan finish this guy
ReplyDeleteWhen you see some people talking u will think that the have something upstairs with out knowing it’s an empty tank Dele I taught you have something upstairs
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