T0P ST0RY: Oshiomole Reveals The Number Of PDP Govs Supporting Atiku
Afnews Editor
Nov 19, 2022
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, a former National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has insisted that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has only seven governors supporting him.
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Oshiomhole also expressed absolute confidence in the ability of the APC's 2023 presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to have a landslide victory at the poll.
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According to the former Edo State governor, all the 23 APC governors are working persistently towards the success of Tinubu in the 2023 general elections.
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Oshiomhole stated this while addressing State House correspondents after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja on Friday.
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He said he was in the State House to express formal appreciation to Buhari for his determination and commitment to the APC ahead of the 2023 elections.
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Oshiomhole said, "So if you ask me how we are doing, we are doing very well. Whereas the other [PDP] is now battling with five governors that backed out, and you find out how many governors they have, we have twenty-three.
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"Now, if you add twenty-three to five, I am not saying the five are with us, but we have twenty-three with five. I guess that is twenty-eight. If you subtract twenty-eight from thirty-six, it means only eight governors, in fact, seven, because the other one in APGA isn't there.
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"So, while he [Atiku] has seven governors working for him, we have twenty-three working for us, and we have five who are neutral. You know, when you're voting, when I was in ILO, you vote for, against, or you abstain. Abstinence is as good as voting against.ÔÇØ
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