2023: Ngige downplays polls prediction on Obi, silent on preferred candidate
by ebor cletus ralph jr
According to Chris Ngige, the minister of labour and employment, surveys favouring Peter Obi, the contender for the Labour Party’s presidential nomination, to win the 2023 election were unimportant.
On Friday, Ngige appeared on the programme Politics Today on Channels Television.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are the two front-runners for next year’s presidential election, but the non-governmental ANAP Foundation, founded by former Stanbic IBTC chairman Atedo Peterside and an international media outlet, Bloomberg, is expected to defeat them.
However, the minister stressed that the results of the election will not be determined by the polls.
On his favourite candidate for the following year, he remained mute.
Ngige, however, praised the performance of Tinubu as a two-term governor of Lagos State.
He said: “I’m not active in politics for now because I am facing a national assignment. Using statistics and mere figures don’t mean anything.
“Both of them are my friends. My choice will be in the ballot box. It is a secret ballot. I shouldn’t tell Nigerians what I would do secretly.
“We have problems in APC; PDP has their own. Their own is two times our own. Our own is family disagreements. If we get our acts together, my party will sweep.”
