We won’t support Jonathan because Buhari is most likely to win the election – APGA

By TODAY on January 5, 2015 @ 1:24 am

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The All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, has said it will not support President Goodluck Jonathan in the forthcoming elections as it is very likely that the candidate of the All progressives Congress, APC, Muhammadu Buhari, will emerge winner of the February presidential election.

The Chairman of the Lagos State chapter of APGA, Mr. Campbell Umeh-Nzekwe, made this known on Sunday.

According to Umeh-Nzekwe, Jonathan’s problems were further compounded when the Ohanaeze Ndigbo failed to adopt him as the consensus candidate of the Igbo for the election at its Ime-Obi (inner caucus) meeting on Saturday, in Enugu.

He said the sermon by renowned Enugu-based Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, calling on Jonathan to drop his presidential ambition has “sent shockwaves across the South-East region,” adding that APGA is certain he (Jonathan) won’t win votes in the North.

“The game has changed. As it is, Jonathan has no chance of winning. Buhari seems to have taken over. The PDP has collapsed in the North if you care to know. All those who are running to Aso Rock and making promises to the President are just deceiving him,” Umeh-Nzekwe said.

He, however, said he wasn’t certain if APGA would be supporting Buhari at the polls.
He said, “Jonathan is a sitting President with incumbency factor in his favour but Buhari has the masses and a cult following in the North. In 2011, Buhari won 12 million votes in the North with his rag-tag party, the Congress for Progressive Change, without a single governor or senator to campaign for him.

“Today, his party, the APC, has 14 governors, 43 senators and 176 Reps as well as 625 House of Assembly members. Also, the APC has dominant control of the North-West with a total number of 18.4 million voters and North-East with 10.2 million while South-West has 13.4 million voters

“ The PDP has dominant control of the North-Central and Abuja with 10.4 million voters while the South-South has 8.5 million and South-East has 7.2 million votes.

“However, no zone has achieved 50 per cent of votes cast but northern voters are more committed and trustworthy than those in the South.

“Also, look at Jonathan’s campaign team. He has Col. Ahmadu Ali (retd.) as his Director General and Peter Obi as the deputy while Buhari has Governor Rotimi Amaechi and Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora as director general and deputy respectively. It is time for Ndi Igbo to review their strategy.”