The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Bola Tinubu officially conceded to Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of the election on Monday, according to the Atiku/Okowa Campaign Organization.
In a statement released by its spokesperson Kola Ologbondiyan, the Tinubu campaign acknowledged that Atiku is well-established, more popular than Tinubu, and likely to win in the majority of states in the South East, South South, South West, North East, and other regions of the country. The campaign organization urged Nigerians to take note of this admission.
While we categorically reject and do not acknowledge the aforementioned Nextier Polls because they are unsupported, baseless, and non-empirical, our campaign does acknowledge Tinubu’s contention in its response to Nextier that Adamawa (and by extension the North East) is a stronghold of the PDP Presidential Candidate and described any speculation to the contrary as “ridiculous.”
Furthermore, our campaign accepts Tinubu’s campaign’s admission that the South South States of Delta, the home State of the PDP Vice Presidential Candidate, Akwa-Ibom, the home State of the Chairman of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council, Bayelsa, Edo, and Rivers States, are impregnable strongholds of Atiku Abubakar and the PDP, and we declare any poll to the contrary as satire.
Additionally, Atiku Abubakar enjoys unwavering support in the South East States of Abia, Enugu, Anambra, Imo, and Ebonyi, which continue to be PDP strongholds.
In states of the North West, such as Katsina, where the APC structure has collapsed into the PDP, as well as Kano, Jigawa, Sokoto, Kaduna, Zamfara, and Kebbi, where APC members are daily migrating in their millions to the PDP due to Atiku Abubakar’s overwhelming popularity, it is also evident that Atiku Abubakar is more grounded and popular than Tinubu.
“In the same vein, in the North Central, the PDP presidential candidate is enormously popular in Benue, the home State of the PDP National Chairman; Kwara, Kogi, Nasarawa, Niger, Plateau and the FCT, where Nigerians have shown their preference for Atiku Abubakar and the PDP as evidenced by the growing support base and the PDP’s victory in recent sub-national elections.
“Our Campaign also observes that the Tinubu Campaign could not claim the South West, ostensibly due to the fact that Atiku Abubakar and the PDP are more well-liked than Tinubu in the South West States of Osun, Oyo, Ekiti, Ondo, and Ogun as well as Lagos, where the APC presidential candidate’s popularity has fatally dipped following the shocking revelations of corrupt looting of the resources and assets of the State.
In a statement, the campaign advised Asiwaju Tinubu to discreetly resign from the race in order to prevent a humiliating loss. “Having officially succumbed to the political superiority of Atiku Abubakar ahead of the February 25, 2023 Presidential election,” the statement stated.
