Oshiomole says Atiku has just 7 governors working for him

Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, a former national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has stated that Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, only has support from seven governors ahead of the general elections in 2023.

Oshiomhole also expressed complete faith in Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the APC's presidential candidate for 2023, to win the election by a wide margin.

The former governor of Edo State claims that all 23 APC governors are steadfastly striving to ensure Tinubu's victory in the general elections of 2023.

This was said by Oshiomhole in a statement to State House reporters on Friday following a private meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja.

He claimed he had been to the White House to formally thank Buhari for his tenacity and dedication to the APC in the run-up to the 2023 elections.

Oshiomhole said, “So if you ask me how we are doing, we are doing very well. Whereas the other [PDP] is now battling with five governors that backed out, and you find out how many governors they have, we have twenty-three.

"Now, if you add twenty-three to five, I am not saying the five are with us, but we have twenty-three with five. I guess that is twenty-eight. If you subtract twenty-eight from thirty-six, it means only eight governors, in fact, seven, because the other one in APGA isn’t there.

“So, while he [Atiku] has seven governors working for him, we have twenty-three working for us, and we have five who are neutral. You know, when you’re voting, when I was in ILO, you vote for, against, or you abstain. Abstinence is as good as voting against.”

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