In recent days, the race to the 2023 presidential election experienced an increase in momentum, as diverse political stakeholders begin to openly declare their interests and canvass for support for their preferred candidates....CONTINUE READING THE FULL ARTICLE>>>
Meanwhile, although none of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar nor former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu has openly declared thier intentions to run for the office of president in the next general elections, however, their both political moves speaks in favour of it.
Just yesterday, Atiku in an address during the inauguration of Northeast Business Communities for Atiku 2023, in Gombe, on Monday, hailed a group promising to buy presidential nomination form for him.
Similarly, a support group, South-West Agenda for Asiwaju (SWAGA), has continued to carry out massive grassroot campaign in support of their preferred presidential candidate, Tinubu.
Consequently, even though the presidential primary election is still about nine months away, many political enthusiasts have continued to debate on who among Atiku or Tinubu has higher chances of winning at the poll if they bother emerge as presidential candidates of their respective parties, Peoples Democratic Party and All Progressives Congress.
Thus, although they both seems to have almost equal political strength, but a critical analysis of both potential candidates, showed that there’s a great likelihood that former Vice president Atiku may defeat Tinubu at the presidential election.
First, one of the things that may work in favour of Atiku is the fact that he’s a northerner and as a result, he’s poised to appeal more to the North compared to a Southern candidate.
He may likely get more massive votes from the North compared to his last outing against President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019, because he may just fit in into the agitations of some prominent northern groups who had insisted that the North must produce next president because the South as spent more years on the throne compared to the North.
Meanwhile, it may be argued that the agitations by Southerners that it region must produce next president may also likely favour Tinubu, however, worthy of note is that if Atiku is able to get into the hearts of the Northern voters, he’s at great chance of using overwhelming votes from the North to neutralized the ones Tinubu might get from the South.
This is because, it is a common knowledge that the North has a higher voter population when compared to the South.
Consequently, if both emerge as presidential candidates if their political parties, PDP and APC, Atiku may be at higher advantage of defeating Tinubu at the poll.
But in your thoughts, do you think Atiku or Tinubu can actually emerge as their parties presidential flag bearer ?