Senator Rochas Okorocha has said that he is the only All Progressives Congress (APC) aspirant who can win the presidency for his party in 2023 because he is more acceptable in the North than anywhere else.
He also said he has the capacity to win Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate, even in his home state of Adamawa.
Okorocha, who spoke on Arise TV on Wednesday, said, “The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate contested against our president and he was a former member of the APC and he lost.
“He pulled sufficient votes then but the question now is, who is that man now who can pull the same number of votes like Buhari did in the last two general elections to be able to defeat Atiku Abubakar, that is what should occupy the minds of our party members. Anything aside from this will be a failure on our side”, he said.
He added, “Who is that Nigerian that can get that number of votes from the North? The only thing that the PDP is working on is to pull the votes from the North. You will not have President Buhari again on the ballot because most people that won APC tickets in the North did so because of Muhammadu Buhari.
“People rode on the back of President Buhari and as a president, having ruled for eight years with all the challenges he may not be able to pull that number of votes again.
“We have to look for that man who the North can look at and give him votes and Rochas Okorocha is that man,” he noted.
