{"id":82894,"date":"2023-02-19T11:29:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T10:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2023-why-apc-will-win-presidential-election-keyamo"},"modified":"2023-02-19T12:46:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T11:46:18","slug":"2023-why-apc-will-win-presidential-election-keyamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-why-apc-will-win-presidential-election-keyamo","title":{"rendered":"2023: Why APC will win presidential election \u2013 Keyamo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Festus Keyamo, Minister of State for Labour and Employment, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) will win the Feb. 25 presidential election because it is the most popular party in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Keyamo, also a spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), stated this when he appeared at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout trying to sound overconfident, I can tell you that the election is ours to lose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you take the baseline for projection for the 2015 and 2019 elections, you will discover that in terms of the demographic setup of Nigeria and the voting pattern in the last two elections, the APC has the upper hand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you take the baseline from the recent elections, then you will know that the election is for APC and our candidate to lose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemographically, we are extremely strong, we are the most diverse and widespread all over the country, the APC is the only party without concentration of support from one part of the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Keyamo, also a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) said it was clear that the APC would record a landslide victory at the poll, going by current developments in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, in a country like ours or anywhere in Africa, you have an opposition that is not together facing the ruling party, that is you have an opposition split into three. How do you expect them to defeat the ruling party?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a very simple calculation, forget about all the noise going around. The split we see today in the opposition parties facing the APC, in the form of PDP, LP and NNPP is an indication of weakness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a simple calculation and even when they were together as PDP just three and half years ago, we defeated them with 4 million votes, so they have a task of bridging the 4 million votes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if they were together, they still have a 4 million votes deficit to close up in the last election, not to mention now that they are split into three. Where are the votes going to come from, that\u2019s the question we are asking and we are waiting for the Nigerian electorate to answer that in a few days\u2019 time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Festus Keyamo, Minister of State for Labour and Employment, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) will win the Feb. 25 presidential election because it is the most popular party in Nigeria. Keyamo, also a spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), stated this when he appeared at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":82893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[1570,2140,34,297,254,6165],"class_list":["post-82894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-apc","tag-keyamo","tag-nigeria","tag-presidential-election"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2023: Why APC will win presidential election \u2013 Keyamo - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Festus Keyamo, Minister of State for Labour and Employment, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) will win the Feb. 2 ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-why-apc-will-win-presidential-election-keyamo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2023: Why APC will win presidential election \u2013 Keyamo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Festus Keyamo, Minister of State for Labour and Employment, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) will win the Feb. 2 ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-why-apc-will-win-presidential-election-keyamo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-02-19T10:29:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-02-19T11:46:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1676793554.14.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-why-apc-will-win-presidential-election-keyamo#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-why-apc-will-win-presidential-election-keyamo\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"2023: Why APC will win presidential election \u2013 Keyamo\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-02-19T10:29:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-02-19T11:46:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-why-apc-will-win-presidential-election-keyamo\"},\"wordCount\":396,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-why-apc-will-win-presidential-election-keyamo#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1676793554.14.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"APC\",\"Keyamo\",\"Nigeria\",\"presidential election\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-why-apc-will-win-presidential-election-keyamo#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-why-apc-will-win-presidential-election-keyamo\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-why-apc-will-win-presidential-election-keyamo\",\"name\":\"2023: Why APC will win presidential election \u2013 Keyamo - 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