A presidential aspirant under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and senator representing Kano central senatorial district in the National Assembly, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has stated that the PDP lost the 2015 presidential election, because they fielded only one candidate.
Speaking on Friday, September 21, during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, Kwankwaso boasted that the party’s chance of victory in next year’s election was high based on the number of aspirants in the presidential race compared to that of 2015.
His words: “In 2015, PDP had only one candidate and it lost the election. If you look at it statistically, from 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2011, PDP had very competitive (aspirants) at primary elections and was winning the general elections in those election years. But in 2015, it decided to print only one form for one person and it lost the election.”
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He claimed many PDP members left for the All Progressive Congress (APC) after the 2015 general elections, because of impunity.
“PDP, in my opinion, learnt its lessons. In 2015, PDP was very arrogant and believed that whatever happens, they would win the elections,” he said.
“They (PDP) never thought that an incumbent could lose the election. They had at that time, some level of impunity that many of us felt that was not the best way to handle the government, the party and of course the country.
“That was why we decided to defect to the APC, mobilised the people and at the end of the day, we won the election,” he added.
Kwankwaso's comments comes a month after he visited the former president in his Abuja residence, as part of his consultations for the 2019 elections.
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Last week, Kwankwaso declared that history is about to repeat itself in Nigeria as the 2019 general elections draws nearer.
Kwankwaso, a former governor of Kano state, stated that the indices on ground have proven beyond every reasonable doubt that the ruling All Progress Congress (APC) has lost electoral value just within three years.
He made the comments in in Sokoto on a visit to state PDP executives ahead of the party’s presidential primaries in October.
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