The Kogi West senator, Smart Adeyemi, has emphasised that the contenders for president in the 2023 election, Mr. Peter Obi of the Labour Party and Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, will face off on February 25.
Smart Adeyemi emphasised that the People’s Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, Atiku Abubakar, has no chance of winning the election when he picked up the nomination form for the Kogi State governorship on Monday from the APC National Secretariat.
Adeyemi told the media that the 2023 presidential election is a two-horse fight between the two contenders from Southern Nigeria after electing to run for governor in the Kogi gubernatorial election scheduled for November 11, 2023.
The 19 Northern APC Governors were lauded for their insistence that the centre of power must move to the south by the former national president of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), who provided this evaluation.
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The Kogi State gubernatorial candidate ignored the PDP candidate, downplayed Peter Obi’s prospects, and emphasised that Tinubu has a greater chance of winning the election in his assessment of the expected performances of the presidential candidates.
He stated: “Why will anybody ask you to vote for Atiku? Was he not in charge of privatization? Was he not the one who sold out assets to non-performing companies? All those who do not know the history will be shouting Atiku. Atiku is not in the equation.
“Northern Governors in the APC insisted on a power shift to save Nigeria from the crisis. History will forever be kind to them. This election is between Asiwaju and Obi. Atiku is not in the race. Atiku cannot be in the race.”
“They brought this redesigning of our currency to ridicule APC. Asiwaju creates wealth. Atiku sold our wealth and resources. I pity Peter Obi because politics is the way you are seeing it. Just yesterday, the entire Labour Party structure in the Northwest collapsed its structure for the APC. So, how is he going to win the election? Maybe he is a man for the future but in this election, the strength is not there.
“It is beyond street politics. I am from Kogi. There is no Labour Party presence in my constituency. Winning an election is about strategic thinking and planning not about talking too much
“I am supporting Asiwaju and Shettima not because they are APC but because of their records and contemporary issues in the Nigerian nation.”
