2023: 21 states Atiku may lose and why

Atiku Abubakar on the campaign trail

The internal tussle in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will hurt the chances of the presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, according to former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose.

The conflict has been further exacerbated by the G-5 governors who have also willed their support for Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike. The PDP G-5 are Governors Nyesom Wike, Seyi Makinde, Samuel Ortom, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, and Okezie Ikpeazu.

Meanwhile, there is a growing romance between Wike, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi as well as Chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The bromance is likely to cost Atiku some states in the polls in 2023.

Speaking categorically about the PDP's chances in the coming polls, Ayodele Fayose, a former Ekiti governor, on Thursday, November 17, noted that the possibility of the opposition party winning states in the southeast and southwest regions is very slim.

These states are:

- Lagos

- Ogun

- Oyo

- Ekiti

- Imo

- Anambra

- Ebonyi

- Abia

Fayose said: "Let me give you an analysis. In the southwest, people might not like to hear that, I don’t see how PDP will win. Anybody deceiving us can continue to deceive us. “I don’t see how PDP will win in the South-East. South-South will be a combination of all interests."

Concerning the northcentral and the northeast, the former governor noted that the PDP has not done much work in the former apart from the threatening fact that the latter is where the APC's vice presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima, hails from, Legit said.

States in the northcentral and the northeast include:

- Benue

- Kogi

- Kwara

- Nasarawa

- Niger

- Plateau

- Federal Capital Territory

- Adamawa

- Bauchi

- Borno

- Gombe

- Taraba

- Yobe

Fayose said: “Without deceiving ourselves, there is so much work to do in the north-central. PDP and APC did not pick any candidate, either presidential or vice-presidential, from the north-central. The northeast is where the vice-presidential candidate of APC comes from."