Former Governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari says the All Progressives Congress APC has chances of winning the 2023 general election if it takes the right actions between now and next year.
Speaking in an interview with journalists in Abuja, Yari, who is also an aspirant for the chairmanship position of the APC said one of such right actions is to elect a National chairman with a track record of success in the party’s coming National Convention.
According to Yari, APC needs to enable a people-focused party stalwart like him to repeat past electoral successes that he has accomplished even before the beginning of the current democratic dispensation.
He noted that he is not disturbed by any alleged scheme by any serving or former governors in the North West geo-political zone trying to jeopardize his chairmanship aspiration in order to ensure that one of them becomes either President or Vice President in 2023.
“If God decides that it should be, it is going to be. People can maneuver and do all sorts of calculations but they will not prevail. All I know is this: I have the capacity to lead this party and they know what I can do,” he said.
Yari further dismissed various corruption allegations against him as “mere political dirt from faceless persons”, adding that having done his very best as a member of the House of Representatives, state governor and chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, he has no need to worry over the EFCC’s ongoing investigation of his administration.
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