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Atiku will defeat Buhari with an embarrassing wide margin - Campaign body boasts

- Atiku Abubakar's campaign organisation has assured the PDP's presidential candidate of victory in the Saturday, February 23, election

- The director of the organisation, Senator Ighoyota Amori, in a recent statement condemned INEC's postponement of the elections

- Amori claimed that the electoral body has fallen short of the expectation of Nigerians with regards to transparency

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)'s flag bearer, Atiku Abubakar, has been give assurance of victory in the coming polls by his campaign organisation headed by Senator Ighoyota Amori.

Amori decried the postponement of the Saturday, February 16, presidential and National Assembly elections by the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), describing the decision as “gross incompetence, loyalty to APC national government and abysmal failure.”

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Adding that INEC has failed to live up to the collective expectation of most Nigerians, the senator alleged that the APC has the antecedent of rigging elections in the country, citing the recent gubernatorial polls in Ekiti and Osun, where, according to him, there were many cases of vote buying.

Amori went ahead in his allegation to say that if the electoral body continues with its scheme to rig the coming elections in the favour of the ruling party, it will face strong resistance from both Nigerians and the international community.

He stated: “APC is not the Messiah party and President Buhari has taken Nigeria 16 years backward within three years and eight months in office; and the entire world crashed on APC the very moment INEC radically shifted the goal post by postponing last Saturday’s election as the nation’s electoral goalkeeper.

“It’s obvious that Buhari cannot make it back to Aso Rock in 2019; the handwriting is clear, no matter the manipulations which may occur as a result of the postponement. Our presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar shall defeat Buhari with an embarrassing wide margin at the poll.

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“I wish to appeal to all eligible voters to be calm and focused and to be ready to vote APC propaganda government out of the Villa, so that the restructuring of the Nigerian nation can take place for peace, unity and progress of our dear country.”

Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that a prediction by Williams and Associates had said that Atiku would win the election.

The prediction was the result of a field work conducted by the pollster, which was posted on its website on Monday, February 4.

Legit.ng gathered that the pollster had, in a similar field work in 2015, accurately predicted the defeat of former President Goodluck Jonathan in the last presidential election.

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