2023: No basis for comparing Tinubu with Obi – Alake

The Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Presidential Campaign Council has said there should be no comparison between Tinubu and the Labour Party’s candidate, Dr Peter Obi.

Mr Dele Alake, the council’s Director of Strategic and Communication, said this while speaking on a current affairs programme on Tuesday night.

When asked about the third force movement triggered by Peter Obi, Alake said he could not deny the groundswell of frustration among Nigerian youths that led to the movement.

This, he said, was the driving force of Obi’s popularity on social media, adding that the feeling was natural and the pent-up anger real.

“If you put all the antecedents of the candidates on a table, Obi will trail far behind the others. There is no basis for comparison between Obi and Tinubu, the difference is clear. It’s like that between the fluke and the substance”, Alake stressed.

He noted that as Nigerians, we all had opinions on how things should be or ought to be, saying that this was what was being aggregated on social media.

According to him, social media would not determine the outcome of 2023 general elections.

“The population of the social media warriors will not necessarily translate into votes, especially among rural dwellers, whoever is basing Obi’s popularity on social media, has missed it,” Alake said.

He said the APC presidential campaign council would deal with the Obi problem when the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) authorised the beginning of the campaign at the end of September.

However, he explained that there was no basis of comparison between Tinubu and Obi, saying that many of Obi’s social media supporters were in it for entertainment and not because they were committed.

Alake added that supporters of Obi had not really analysed his performance as a governor or his antecedents.