Presidency 2023: Very difficult for northern voters to vote Igbo president now – Kwankwaso

The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Engr. Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, had in a media interaction said that with the current situation in Nigeria, it will be difficult for northern voters to vote a presidential candidate from the Igbo nation now, citing the violent agitation in the southeast. Kwankwaso asserted that this is the reason the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, should be his running mate in the 2023 general elections. The NNPP presidential candidate maintained that the southeast only has opportunity for future relevance in the politics of the country in NNPP, saying that the southeast has lost relevance in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He stated that the NNPP, LP negotiation for allegiance is in the interest of both parties and Nigerians as well, noting that the major issue in the negotiation is who will be the presidential or vice-presidential candidate in the potential merger party.

Kwankwaso had on Sunday declared: “I believe it is in the interest of the Labour Party and the NNPP, and even in the interest of this country … because LP, as it stands today, certainly cannot win election.

“Yes! It cannot win election.

“Because mainly, the support is mainly in a particular zone and not spread, and the figures there cannot earn anybody a presidential seat in this country.”

Kwankwaso maintained: “The major issue, as it stands today, is the issue of who becomes the president and who becomes the vice president; And I believe this is the time really to advise, especially, those who are positively behind the candidate of the Labour Party, that for me, I have seen an opportunity for the Southeast to be relevant in the next dispensation. In PDP, they are completely out, and so in the APC. The only opportunity now is the NNPP.

“Most of the things that are happening in the South, especially, in the Southeast; people are not comfortable with that and as long as you have somebody from there in any party, it will be very difficult for the northern voters to vote, and that’s the situation now.”