2023: Tinubu will still win whenever he starts campaign – Umahi

No matter the time, Bolaji Ahmed Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) kick off their campaign, they will still come out victorious in the 2023 presidential election, Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, assured on Monday.
It was also on the day the goveror, who joined the APC from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), where he rose from deputy state chairman to become a two-term governor, declared his old party, now the opposition in the state, completely dead.
Umahi, who had in 2020, citing what he believed was a situation of no future for the Igbo to actualise the quest for presidency in the PDP, crossed over to the ruling party at the national level, where he contested the party ticket in the June 2022 primaries and lost woefully, alongside his compatriots from the South East, after former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, picked the title.
Regardless, the governor, believes that his competence and performance in office, had completely buried the main opposition party at the national level and now, his state, urging those doubting him to await the outcome of next year’s elections.
He told his hosts on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television breakfast programme, on Monday, in reality, the PDP could no longer be considered an existing political party in the state, adding that the number of people who troop out to support the APC at each of its programmes, bore adequate testimony to the prostrate state of the party in the state.
“Every state is built on the performances of the governor. I have performed and it’s not about the party, it’s about the leadership of the state. There is no PDP in Ebonyi state, and if you’ve witnessed our programmes of late, you’d have noticed the number of people that came out. So, the PDP should not even talk. They are not even second in ranking in Ebonyi state. So there’s nothing like structure.”
The Ebonyi governor said the delay in the commencement of the APC’s presidential campaign will not hurt the party’s chances at the polls.
“We have many months to elections and we have many months to campaign. The first to start does not translate to the first to finish. So, the APC is a bank and they are coming up with programmes. It will soon happen.”