Festus Keyamo (SAN), the chief spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, has downplayed former President Olusegun Obasanjo and elder statesman Chief Edwin Clark’s endorsement of Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi.
WITHIN NIGERIA reported that Obasanjo and Clark recently endorsed the Labour Party flagbearer’s presidential bid.
However, speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday, Keyamo, the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, said it would be an eleventh wonder if the APC’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, were to lose the upcoming elections.
While expressing delight at Peter Obi’s endorsement, the APC chieftain stated that it would have no impact on Tinubu’s presidential ambition.
According to him, Obasanjo and others refused to endorse President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019, despite the fact that he easily won re-election with over 15 million votes.
Keyamo said:
We are excited by their endorsement but I can assure you the Labour Party will not win. Also anywhere the G-5 consensus governors goes is a win-win for the APC. PDP are hoping for the betrayal of Asiwaju in the North.
Obasanjo, Ayo Adebanjo, Chief Edwin Clerk said the worst things about APC and Buhari’s re-election in 2019 and 15 million Nigerians did not listen to them.
They should not be sanctimonious before us. The Emilokan slogan was what Tinubu told APC delegates in Ogun State justifying that he has served the party. The opposition used it as propaganda a thousand times.”
On the chances of APC winning the presidential election, he said: “Based on projections, it would be an 11th wonder if we don’t win the election.