Festus Keyamo, the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, on Thursday said the two main opposition parties, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party, lost the 2023 presidential election because the two parties were “fragmented”.
TrackNews reports that according to Keyamo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), the PDP and Labour Party ‘handed the APC victory’ at last Saturday’s poll.
Atiku Abubakar is the presidential candidate of the PDP, with Peter Obi, representing the Labour Party.
While Atiku came second behind Bola Tinubu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who is president-elect, Obi emerged third.
In order to kick out the ruling PDP in 2015, different parties merged to form the APC and it won; but for PDP to kick APC out of power, it fragmented into Labour Party, NNPP and PDP. If you remove emotions for one moment, it is not difficult to see why the opposition parties lost
— Festus Keyamo, SAN (@fkeyamo) March 2, 2023
“In order to kick out the ruling PDP in 2015, different parties merged to form the APC and it won; but for PDP to kick APC out of power, it fragmented into Labour Party, NNPP and PDP.
“If you remove emotions for one moment, it is not difficult to see why the opposition parties lost,” Keyamo wrote on his verified Twitter handle.
