Ahead of the February 25th general elections in the country, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has boasted that he would defeat the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) even if the election is postponed.
The Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organization has advised the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign to end the hope and belief that the election would be postponed.
The statement was contained in a statement signed and released by the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organization on Tuesday morning.
The Atiku-Okowa Campaign organization said the generality of Nigerians reject the pressure by the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign for the postponement of the election.
According to the spokesman of the campaign, Kola Ologbondiyan, the ploy by APC to lobby the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC to postpone the election will create confusion and derail electoral process.
He said “The demand for postponement by the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign is a ploy to further create confusion and derail the electoral process”.
The Atiku Campaign reminded the Tinubu Campaign of how the governor of a prominent North West State was said to have been humiliated at the last Council of State meeting where he reportedly went to push a failed memo for the postponement of the election for a few weeks.
“Our campaign has also been reliably informed that this APC governor is demanding the postponement because the APC Candidate, Tinubu, cannot by any measure win the election, given his overwhelming rejection by Nigerians.”
“It is pathetic that after its defeat at the Council of State meeting, the Tinubu Campaign is still perching around media platforms and seeking for the postponement of the elections,” Ologbondiyan said.
According to the statement “having been stunned by the rejection at the meeting, the Tinubu Campaign had resorted to inciting violence, making wild, unfounded and reckless accusations, posting incendiary remarks, attacking prominent Nigerians, blackmailing and seeking to compromise our democratic institutions in order to heat up the polity and make it appear unconducive for elections to hold on February 25, 2023.”
According to INEC the presidential and National Assembly election will hold on the 25th of February 2023 across all polling booth in the country.