Atiku must win Kano, Lagos, Rivers to beat Tinubu - Kwankwaso

The presidential candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso has advised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and their presidential candidate on the states they must win in order to defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Senator Kwankwaso made the comment on Monday, November 20 during the commissioning of the Mgbuitanwo internal roads in Emohua Local Government Area, Rivers.

The presidential candidate wondered how Atiku and the PDP plan to win the elections when the oil-reach state, Lagos, and Kano are far from its reach.

In what sounded like an echo of Governor Nyesom Wike's position on the chances of the PDP during the polls, Kwankwaso said: “We have seen people in my former party that whatever they want is ticket. They are ready to do anything to have a ticket. I can tell you as governor Wike has been saying, any party that cannot control two of the three states of Kano, Lagos, and Rivers has been saying it and people are not taking note of it.

“By now with Kwankwaso out of that party, Wike is still struggling to be there or not to be there, somehow things are moving. Certainly, Lagos is not their own, one begins to wonder where they will get their votes to win the election of 2023."

Kwankwaso also responded to rumors that he will step down for Atiku Abubakar. He cleared the air while speaking at a meeting with the Nigeria Guild of Editors (NGE), which took place in the Ikeja area of Lagos.

He said: “Now, people are concocting the story that I am going to step down for them or that I am going to withdraw for them. Why did they allow me to go? What happened at that time or was it still an issue in the party?”

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