2023: Why Kwankwaso Should Agree To Be Obi’s Running Mate – Labour Party

The Nationwide Chairman of Labour Occasion (LP), Julius Abure, has disclosed why the presidential candidate of the Contemporary Nigeria Peoples Occasion (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso, must peaceable conform to be the working mate to Peter Obi.

Kumornews earlier reported that Kwankwaso had stated that the LP does now not stand the possibility to set up on the 2023 presidential election because it does now not occupy a mass enchantment and nationwide structure.

The susceptible Governor of Kano Snarl claimed that the occasion entirely enjoys pork up from the South East, which is one out of the six geopolitical zones within the nation.

Kwankwaso stated that votes cast by the folks of the South East for the LP candidate, Peter Obi, wouldn’t be enough to provide him the following President. He added that the structure states that a candidate wants an overall majority and a minimum of 25% of the votes in two-thirds of the states.

Reacting in an interview with The Punch, the LP nationwide chairman suggested Kwankwaso to secure to be Obi’s working mate in his salvage interest, adding that the susceptible Kano Governor can not determine on the 2023 presidential election.

Abere stated that Obi has one of the best likely credentials out of the general many flagbearers within the 2023 presidential accelerate, adding that the susceptible Anambra governor is the particular person of the second and the most fashioned within the nation lawful now.

He stated that the present mood of the nation does now not favour Kwankwaso for the explanation that NNPP presidential candidate is moreover from North West love President Muhammadu Buhari.

He stated, “The truth of the topic is that it is miles in his (Kwankwaso’s) salvage interest for him to use the Vice Presidency.

“When you happen to leer at equity and equity, it doesn’t favour Kwankwaso, the mood of the nation as it stands does now not favour Kwankwaso. The behind President Musa Yar’adua modified into once from the North West, and the present President, Muhammadu Buhari, is from the North West, Nigerians won’t secure yet any other particular person from the North West.

“These are components that stretch to play and I don’t explain we wants to be conceited about it.”