I don’t expect the Labour Party to take many votes, most of our people in the North are not tuned to social media – Atiku

Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has said that contrary to popular opinions, the Labour Party cannot take as many votes from the PDP as is been suggested.

Atiku stated this during an exclusive interview on Arise TV on Thursday. He questioned the performance of the Labour Party at the just concluded Osun State Gubernatorial election. He said it would take a miracle for the Labour Party to win in a country that depends on the structures of a party at different levels

He further stated that 90% of the people in the north are not on social media and so it will be impossible to cajole them that way.

“I really don’t expect the Labour Party to take as many votes from the PDP as people are suggesting. We could have seen it in the last election in Osun state. What is the performance of the Labour Party?

This is a party that doesn’t have a governor, doesn’t have members of the national assembly, doesn’t have state assembly members, and politics in this country depends on the structures you have at the various levels — at the local government level, at the state level, and at the national level.” he said

“So, it is very difficult to expect a miracle to happen, simply because Peter Obi is in the Labour Party. After all, they were saying through social media, they had more than one million votes in Osun state.

But how many votes turned for the Labour Party? And then again, mark you, you’re talking about social media. In the north, 90 percent of our people are not tuned to social media.”