Abubakar Yunusa Abuja
The national youth leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mohammed Suleiman , says promoting religious sentiments to win the 2023 presidential election will not work for any candidate as Nigerians now looks forward to voting only for a competent leader.
According to him, it will not work for those banking religious sentiments to get votes this time around because
everything has changed.
The youth leader disclosed this in an interview with journalists shortly after the inauguration of the North -west zonal chapter of the Atiku United front in Kaduna on Saturday.
Suleiman said Nigerians, especially in the north-west zone, have suffered under the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration and would not be swayed by religious sentiments.
“APC promised to provide security, good education and so many other things, but they have failed in protecting the lives and property of people.
“Nigerians are looking for somebody who is competent, somebody with the capacity to unite and address the problems facing the country,” he said .
Suleiman also dismissed the recent prediction by Fitch that Tinubu will win the 2023 presidential election, describing it as “a mere prediction from APC”.
He added that the north-west zone has the highest voting population, and that the zone will support the PDP.
“The APC has nothing to offer Nigerians. We will give the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, massive support as PDP is the only hope of the people.
“There is no way Tinubu will win this election. He has no base here in the North-west.
“Tinubu is a regional dictator. We need somebody who will unite this country. We need somebody who has political base across the country.
“Those who are comparing Tinubu with the late MKO Abiola (presumed winner of the 1993 presidential election), to me, are committing political sin.
“If you go to Zaria, there is a house called ‘Abiola house’. Tinubu is just mingling and interacting with people that are occupying political positions.
“He has no base at the grassroots. Nobody knows him at the grassroots, but Atiku is a household name at the grassroots, not only in the north, but across the country,” he said.
