The main opposition party in
Nigeria, the People’s Democratic Party, has elected Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as
its presidential candidate for the 2019 election. Alhaji Atiku, former Vice
President during the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo will
slug it out with the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari, who has also been
elected as the flagbearer of the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, few
days ago across the country and ratified by select members of the party in Abuja
yesterday.
According to the
results of the primary held in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State and announced few
hours ago, Alhaji Atiku polled 1,585 votes to defeat his closest rival, Aminu Tambuwal, Governor of Sokoto State, who had 693 votes. The results aligned
with the Infoprations’ early prediction that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President, is most likely to
win the party’s ticket. Infoprations’
Popularity Analysis indicates that people have sought knowledge on Alhaji Atiku more than Sokoto State’s Governor Aminu Tambuwal in the last 7 days.
Alhaji Atiku
Abubakar’s popularity index was 5,008. Senator Kwankwanso closely followed Alhaji Atiku by
3,770 index while Governor Aminu Tambuwal had 1,488 popularity index.
As Alhaji Atiku picks the
party’s ticket, public and political analysts believe that the party will face
many hurdles before the general elections. Choice of competent Vice President Candidate
will be one of the challenges the party will experience, which will make or mar
the party’s chances during the election. “If he can't get an astute manager like Peter Obi on board, he
should get Okonjo Iweala or Femi Adesina on board let's show APC what a
national movement looks like,” a political analysts said.
Another obstacle is the possibility of leaving
the party by the aspirants who lost during the primary election. To avert this
challenge, Infoprations’ check
reveals that all aspirants who participated in the Saturday’s primary election
have earlier compelled to sign
undertaking to support who may emerge as candidate.
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