Afrigather Babatunde Raji Fashola, the Minister of Works and Housing stated that the three main opposition candidates within the presidential election contributed to the victory of the President-Elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Fashola stated this throughout an look on Channels Tv’s Sunday Politics. He stated Obi, Atiku, and Kwankwaso gave Tinubu the victory over their refusal to kind an alliance forward of the election.
Tinubu had within the not too long ago concluded polls polled 8,794,726 votes to defeat Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Celebration (PDP), who obtained 6,984,520 votes, whereas Peter Obi of the Labour Celebration (LP) polled 6,101,533 to come back third and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Celebration (NNPP) completed fourth with 1,496,687 votes.
The previous Governor of Lagos State stated they made the 2023 presidential election simpler for Tinubu to win for the reason that three candidates break up from the Peoples Democratic Celebration (PDP) after the 2019 presidential election.
Fasola stated politics is a recreation of numbers and numbers have arithmetic equations that are additions and multiplications. He stated APC was including and multiplying on account of some PDP governors like Cross River, Ebonyi, Zamfara who had come to hitch APC, therefore PDP was dividing and subtracting
“So, the key contenders towards us on this election – NNPP, PDP, Labour Celebration, their candidates, had been in the identical occasion in 2019. They misplaced by virtually 4 million votes. So, having now divided that insufficient, inadequate ticket into three, how was it going so as to add up into an electoral victory?” he stated.
“So, they handed away the presidential ticket by dividing their powers. Not solely did they divide, they now subtracted with the G5 governors. So, it was unhealthy arithmetic,” Fashola added.
Fashola said that Peter Obi of the Labour Celebration, LP, had in 2019 run as Atiku’s working mate within the presidential polls, nevertheless, the previous Anambra State governor left the PDP in 2022 to safe the ticket of the Labour Celebration.
Equally, he stated that Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Celebration, NNPP, a former governor of Kano State, in March 2022, dumped the PDP for a second time in eight years.
In keeping with him, he had first left the occasion in November 2013 and joined the APC. He, nevertheless, rejoined the PDP in July 2018 solely to depart 4 years later to guide the NNPP.
Fashola stated it’s these inconsistencies that noticed Tinubu emerge as winner of the 2023 presidential polls.
