We Are Not Splitting APC/PDP Votes – Ezekwesili Insists

Presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria
(ACPN), Obiageli ‘Oby’ Ezekwesili, has responded to claims that her
candidacy will only result in splitting votes originality meant for
the big political parties.

Ezekwesili, who was Nigeria’s former Minister of Education and
Solid Minerals rejected this notion reiterating that her
presidential ambition in-fact stands as a credible alternative to
the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP).

“I don’t know why anyone will think it makes sense that I’m here
to split votes. I am here to answer the call of majority of
Nigerians who are living in abject poverty in the midst of
abundance. I am running as a credible alternative to the Siamese
Twins of failure that the #APC/PDP represents – that is precisely
why I am in the racers be President,” Ezekwesili said.

“It is high time the ruling elite know that they have a fight in
the hands – and the fight is not against me – it is against the
hundreds of millions of people out in the streets with no assurance
of food, shelter, and other basic amenities. That is the fight that
they are in, and I can assure you that they – Nigeria’s failed
leadership – cannot win,” she added.

There are insinuations in some quarters that Ezekwesili’s
involvement in politics is a ploy to split votes in favour of
certain presidential candidates, a rumour that has been denied by
the former Vice President of the World Bank for Africa.

Ezekwesili’s campaign is positioned as an alternative to the two
main parties, which has continued to exhibit incompetent leadership
and grand corruption in all its activities.

Her campaign, she has assured, is hinged on lifting over 80
million Nigerians out of poverty.