Nasarawa Local Government in Kano Metropolitan Area gave the All Progressives Congress (APC) more votes than the entire South-East geopolitical zone, according to Governor Abdullahi Ganduje.
Ganduje, who was guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday, made the assertion while reacting to the question if the emergence of Peter Obi as the flagbearer of the Labour Party (LP) would reduce his party’s chances in 2023.
“Our major contender is the PDP.
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“What is our political investment in the South-East? The votes we got from Nasarawa Local Government in Kano Metropolitan Area was much higher than the total votes APC got in the entire five states of the South-East.
“So, you can see that if there is any problem politically in the South-East, it is the PDP that will suffer the brush. So, the emergence of Obi from the South-eastern part of this country I think it’s the votes of PDP that he will snatch away and is already snatching away.
“For APC, I think it is even a good omen. Instead of having a very close competitor, now the attention of the competitor has been diverted,” he said.