Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai, has once again taken a swipe at Labour Party Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, while restating that this month’s presidential contest is strictly between the duo of APC and PDP.
Obi has been doing well in nationwide opinion polls; and has won all of the latest polls conducted by nationally renown pollsters.
But El-Rufai isn’t impressed.
“Peter Obi is polling 1 percent in Sokoto, 2 percent in Katsina, 5 percent in Kano. That’s where the votes are. All states are not equal,” El-Rufai said during an appearance on TVC.
“The fact that you are doing 70 percent in Anambra State does not mean somebody doing 10 percent in Kano is not better than you.
“Kano is 4 million votes that actually happen. The number of votes in Anambra is the size of one local government in Kaduna State. So, all states are not equal.
“You poll states and you make them equal. Yes, Peter Obi will sweep the southeastern states. He will do well in south-south. Where else? He’s not polling well in southwest, other than a drop in the ocean in Lagos.
“He’s polling well in the Christian enclaves in the north, but how many are they? How many?
“Peter Obi cannot win the election. He doesn’t have the number of states, he doesn’t have 25 percent in more than 16 states. He can’t go anywhere!!
“Peter Obi is a Nollywood actor. And that’s all he will be.
“This election is between the APC and the PDP because they have the footprints, they have the spread. Ethnicity and bigotry will not take you anywhere and that’s what the Labour Party campaign is about”, El-Rufai declared.
The Kaduna governor never misses an opportunity to aim darts at Obi, whether on the campaign trail or on social media.
El-Rufai recently accused Obi of locking him up in a hotel room in Anambra during one of the state’s gubernatorial vote, while the latter held away as the state’s governor.
Obi vehemently denied that he orchestred El-Rufai’s arrest and detention because he had no constitutional powers to do so.
The APC and PDP have shared federal power between them since Nigeria returned to civilian rule in 1999.