A stalwart of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Deputy Speaker to Dimeji Bankole in the Federal House of Representatives, Usman Bayero Nafada, says his party has calculated no fewer than 26 states it is sure of winning convincingly in next Saturday’s presidential election.
Bayero Nafada, who is also the Director-General of the PDP Governorship Campaign Council for Gombe State told journalists in an interview that the 26 states that will vote for Atiku is the minimum his party requires to be declared the winner.
He said apart from their projection, the ruling APC federal government has already campaigned in favour of PDP through their policies just the way its presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu does by saying, he will continue from where President Buhari stopped.
According to him, PDP has been favoured to win because of these utterances and more.
He said, “the presidential election has been concluded in our favour already, as far as the policies of the APC government is concerned.
“No one in Nigeria today will tell you that he will vote for the APC because the presidential candidate of the APC always says he will start from where President Buhari stopped.
“You can see the way Nigerians are suffering now, non of you can produce N10,000 cash. Atiku can not be compared with Tinubu, he is a better candidate than Tinubu, comparing them is like comparing black and white.
“Black and white are incomparable, Atiku has served this country as Vice President, you saw what they did and Nigeria was stable, their leadership style kept Nigeria stable.
“When he comes back as President, he will continue from where he stopped. You know how the dollar was changed during their time, you know the price of essential commodities then cannot be compared with what is happening today”, he stated.
He explained further that the opposition of the G-5 Governors cannot make a negative impact on the Atiku/Okowa movement because most of them are contesting for various positions in the coming elections as such, they cannot ask their people not to vote for any PDP candidate as doing that will negatively affect them.
In his words, “G-5 is just one Governor, the other four are nominal members. We didn’t go to Rivers for rallies but we went to the other four states and you saw what happened, it was successful.
“Enugu State governor is contesting for Senate, is he going to tell the people of Enugu not to vote for PDP? The same thing with the Benue State governor.
“Oyo State governor wants a second term. Even Wike has candidates in PDP contesting various positions/seats at the state and federal levels and the voting is on the same day.
“I think the issue cannot be resolved before the end of next week, we believe PDP will win in Rivers State”, he assured.
Speaking on the chances of the PDP to defeat the ruling APC in Gombe State, he stated again that Governor Inuwa Yahaya has finished his campaign in the favour of the PDP.
“The Governor has done that for us because the suffering of the people is too much. Just the way Buhari has finished campaign in our favour at the top and state level, Inuwa has done that for us too at the state level.
“So how do you expect a reasonable person in Gombe to go and vote for APC? It is not possible. If you compare the immediate past governor with Inuwa, no reasonable person will vote for APC again. APC is a dead party here”, he stressed