Tinubu/Shettima Will Hardly Get 25% Votes In Borno – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said on Wednesday that its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, will get higher votes in Borno State than his opponent from the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in the forthcoming presidential election.

PDP said even though the state is an APC domain, the Wazirin Adamawa’s influence will make it hard for the ruling party to get up to 25% votes in the presidential election.

Naija News understands that the Presidential Campaign Rally of the PDP holds today in Maiduguri, Borno State Capital.

Atiku, his running mate, Sen. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa, Governor Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto), Edo State’s Governor Godwin Obaseki, and other top chieftains of the party and supporters are expected to converge today at the Ramat Square in Maiduguri.

PDP in a statement by its spokesman, Hon. Debo Ologunagba boasted that it will take extra efforts for Tinubu, to secure 25% votes in most States of the country and particularly in Borno State, despite being the home State of the APC Vice-Presidential Candidate, Sen. Kashim Shettima.

“This is because, while Asiwaju Tinubu is not on ground being no match for PDP’s more popular and much loved Atiku Abubakar, the APC’s Vice Presidential Candidate, Kashim Shettima has since lost face with the citizens following his abysmal failure as Governor of the State.

“Since the emergence of Atiku Abubakar as Presidential Candidate of the PDP, the APC, particularly in Borno State has been disconcerted, confused and disorganized by the mass exodus of APC members into the PDP across the nooks and crannies of the State in support of Atiku Abubakar and the PDP,” the statement said.

PDP Has Gained Over A Million Supporters In Borno

According to PDP, over a million members of different parties in Borno State decamped to the opposition camp in the last one month.

The defectors according to PDP are primarily members of the APC and other well-meaning Nigerians who have rejected the failed APC to support the PDP and Atiku Abubakar in the mission to rescue their State and Nigeria at large from the stranglehold of the APC.

It asserted that citizens of the state have suffered untold hardship, sorrow and pain under the APC and are eager for a new lease of life under the PDP and Atiku whose proven leadership capacity represents their renewed hope for survival, security, economic sustenance, infrastructural regeneration and return to normal life.

“Atiku Abubakar’s Presidential Candidacy represents an end to the era of fake promises and false assurances of safety which the people of Borno and Nigerians across the nation have been subjected to in the last seven and half years; he represents the desires and hope of Nigerians for a more secure nation under a sincere, transparent, effective and committed government that has the capacity to deliver on its mandate,” the party’s statement partly read.

The PDP admonished the APC to read the handwriting on the wall, end its shenanigans and accept the fact that the people of Borno State and Nigerians have since pitched their tents with the PDP ahead of the 2023 general elections, and nothing can change their resolve.