How Okowa made Atiku and PDP to loose 2023 presidential election – Abba Moro reveals

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Abba Moro, a lawmaker from the Benue South Senatorial District, asserted that if the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had not selected Ifeanyi Okowa, a former Delta State governor, as the running mate of its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, the party would have won the 2023 presidential election.

In an appearance with Politics Today, a show on Channels Television, Moro made this claim on Tuesday.

Additionally, the legislator characterized Okowa’s selection as the PDP’s vice presidential candidate in the general elections of 2023 as a “serious mistake.”

He said Okowa’s admission that he regretted running for vice president of the PDP since he didn’t make sure the party won the Delta presidential election demonstrated that he wasn’t a true member of the party.

Speaking during his formal reception by the APC leadership in Asaba on Monday, Okowa claimed that the defection was in the best interests of the state’s citizens and that Delta residents needed to connect with Abuja.

However, the Benue senator said, “Given what we know now, with the hindsight that we have now, some of us think that the party would have won the election if other candidates, other than Okowa, had been picked as the vice presidential candidate from the South.

“I think there is an error of judgment on the part of everybody that was involved in the choice of Okowa as the candidate. How else would you characterise this scenario, that a sitting governor, a former senator, and a presidential candidate of a party couldn’t deliver his state even to the presidential candidate?

“And to think that two out of the senators from that state were from the opposition parties other than the PDP.

“So, I think that picking Okowa as the vice presidential candidate in 2023 was a very serious mistake.”

The former Interior Minister reiterated that Okowa’s action showed a lack of commitment to the party.

“As it is now, you can safely conclude that we lost the election because of lack of commitment.

“Otherwise, how can you explain that shortly after losing his state, that ordinarily should have been a very easy pick for the PDP, instead of rendering an apology to the party and Nigeria, he’s now talking about regretting being on the ticket?

“His soul was not in the PDP. His soul was not in that election, and that is why we performed very miserably in Delta State,” he added.

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