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.
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.
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.
Oshiomhole stated this while addressing State House
correspondents after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in
Abuja on Friday.
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.
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.
“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.
“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.”