2023 Presidency: Atiku, Obi Kwankwaso Will Lose, Tinubu Will Win By 60%

The Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu has anticipated an outright triumph for the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential applicant, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in the 2023 elections.

As indicated by Okechukwu who is an establishing part and clan leader of the APC, a few other presidential candidates of other parties have run foul of what Nigerians expect and would hence not get the votes of individuals.

The VON manager who talked at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja said the rise of Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Musa Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) nullify the standards of pivot as the south is supposed to take over from President Muhammadu Buhari.

He added that he has an affirmation of Tinubu's triumph on the grounds that APC as the ruling party has 22 sitting Governors, the majority of the National Assembly and this multitude of individuals and other political appointees will not sell out the party's contender for the 2023 official presidential election.

In his own words, "Asiwaju has 60% of winning this political race. We are in charge of 22 states of the federation. We have the larger part in the National and State Houses of Assembly - they won't double-cross him.

"Even in the South-East, that has never been our (APC) stronghold, on the day of the election, we are going there to protect our mandate"

Okechukwu added that individuals like him should likewise guarantee that APC gets back to power for them to have the option to keep their positions, subsequently his certainty that Tinubu will win as they will out prepare for him.

"Whatever is my preference, if I want my office to remain it means I must support Asiwaju, it’s applicable to those who are board members whether you are coming from Yenogoa or Dutse so that is the power of incumbency," he added.

He argued that PDP and NNPP ought to have followed the principle of rotation in picking their presidential candidates while for the Labor Party, Peter Obi isn't sufficiently able to get the triumph for his party.

As per the VON DG, it's not possible for anyone to win the presidential election in Nigeria without the northern supporter and no northerner can win without a southern fortress. In his view, just Tinubu of the APC can flaunt having the two going into the 2023 decisions.

"They don’t believe in rotation convention. For them, the agitation or the glue and the bound that rotation created since independence. When Tafawa-Balewa as Prime Minister, the president or governor-general was Nnamdi Azikiwe from the South. When Gowon became Head of State, Obafemi Awolowo was his deputy, the same thing with Murtala and Obasanjo. Obasanjo/Shehu Yar-Adua; Shagari/Ekwueme down the line.

“It’s not as if rotation is a new thing. So, for the PDP because of Atiku’s muscle, they jettison the rotation of the presidency which was an injury to himself. Some of us in the south will forbid him because he touched on the ligament that is holding the country.

“That is why we thank the northern governors because they recognised the import of that ligament. You may not take it seriously but if you know the sense of belonging it brings to the north and south you can’t just dismiss it.

“So APC obeyed it. Kwankwaso I know they were afraid of us. I don’t want to name names. This rotation may not have its legal teeth but rotation is a convention. It has its moral angle. That’s why the UK does not have a written constitution they live on conventions. Atiku will not know what he did to himself until the day the votes come.

So is likewise the manner in which Kwankwaso is playing with us. The regions he will capture in the north, I realize he won't surrender and since he doesn't submit to the show, he won't select someone to go with Peter and in the event that Peter doesn't go strong north, we will be in CPC and ANPP in 2003 we had 12 million votes we didn't win the south.

It's not possible for anyone to win in Nigeria on the off chance that you can't have northern help. No northerner can win without a southern fortress. Atiku has lost in the southern fortress. That is the reason I'm giving Tinubu around 60% chances," Okechukwu argued.