{"id":102959,"date":"2023-02-05T18:09:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T17:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=102959"},"modified":"2023-02-05T18:09:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T17:09:18","slug":"obi-cannot-win-he-is-a-nollywood-actor-says-el-rufai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/obi-cannot-win-he-is-a-nollywood-actor-says-el-rufai\/","title":{"rendered":"Obi cannot win, he is a Nollywood actor, says el-Rufai"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna, has dismissed the chances of Peter Obi winning the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with TVC on Thursday, the Kaduna governor said Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), does not have the necessary support across all states to win the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>El-Rufai, who described the LP candidate as a \u201cNollywood actor\u201d, said Obi can only expect significant votes from the south-east and south-south, but not from the north and south-west.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cWe are ahead. How can Peter Obi win any election? Peter Obi is polling one percent in Sokoto; two percent in Katsina; five percent in Kano. That\u2019s where the votes are. All states are not equal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that you\u2019re doing 70 percent in Anambra state does not mean somebody doing 10 percent in Kano is not better than you. Kano is four million votes that actually happen. The number of votes in Anambra is the size of one local government area in Kaduna state. So, all states are not equal.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cIf you poll states and you make them equal, yes, Peter Obi will sweep the south-eastern states; he will do well in south-south; where else? He\u2019s not polling well in the south-west other than a drop in the ocean in Lagos. He\u2019s polling in the Christian enclaves in the north \u2014 he\u2019s polling well \u2014 but how many are they?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeter Obi cannot win the election. He doesn\u2019t have the number of states; he doesn\u2019t have 25 percent \u2014 the last time we checked \u2014 in more than 16 states. He can\u2019t go anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeter Obi is a Nollywood actor and that\u2019s all he will be. This election is between the APC and PDP because they have the footprint; they have the spread. Ethnicity and religious bigotry will not take you anywhere and that\u2019s what the Labour Party campaign is about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are the only party with a candidate with a broad-based support across Nigeria, and by the grace of God, we are going to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna, has dismissed the chances of Peter Obi winning the presidential election. 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