The Minister of State for Labour and Employment Festus Keyamo says the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, and his counterpart in the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) Dr Rabiu Kwankwaso both lack the street credibility to win the 2023 elections.
Keyamo said this in an interview at the weekend with journalist while claiming that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu would secure block votes from the North.
Keyamo, a spokesman for the APC Presidential Campaign Council, was also upbeat that 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.
“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.
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.
