- Former governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger state has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari will lose the 2019 presidential election
- Aliyu said critical stakeholders who contributed to Buhari's 2015 electoral victory had all deserted the APC
- The former governor said the PDP was aware that the APC was putting plans in place to rig the election; and that the opposition party had devised a counter-strategy
President Muhammadu Buhari will lose the 2019 presidential election, says a former governor of Niger state, Babangida Aliyu.
Aliyu made the comment in an interview with Punch, during a peace meeting which his reconciliatory committee had with the Plateau state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
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Legit.ng gathers that the former governor said critical stakeholders who contributed to Buhari's 2015 electoral victory had all deserted the All Progressives Congress (APC).
He said: “What happened in 2015 is what some people would call a northern revolution.
“We can also say that the PDP really gave Buhari and the APC the victory because if you recall, the G7 was made up of seven serving governors; five of them went to the APC and the current Senate president also went to the APC as well.
“That was what gave the APC victory and now, all of them that joined the party have all returned to the PDP. As far as i'm concerned, the APC has no chance in 2019 election because we in PDP are not going to make that mistake again.”
Aliyu said the PDP was aware that the APC was putting plans in place to rig the election, after the ruling party lost the goodwill of Nigerians.
However, he said a counter strategy had been devised by the opposition party to stop the rigging plot and ensure that people's votes count.
He added: “We are not surprised by the intimidation and harassment which we are witnessing from the ruling party.
“We have been telling our members that one needs not be afraid of a party that sees itself being defeated. We are also designing a counter-strategy to make sure that nobody is intimidated.
“Election is about people. It is about development and honesty and not about so called cult building around an individual. It is about number and since we have the number, they will not stop Nigerians from electing Atiku Abubakar as the next president.”
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In a similar development, Legit.ng previously reported that The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research unit of the Economist Magazine, suggested that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, will defeat President Buhari in the 2019 presidential election.
According to the London based magazine, “The Economist Intelligence Unit expects that the President, Muhammadu Buhari, will lose power at the February 2019 elections and that the next government will be led by Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, although his administration will be fragile."
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