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ADEBAYO FOLORUNSHO-FRANCIS and DIRISU YAKUBUthe recent prediction by Fitch Solutions Country Risk and Industry Research that the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, may win the 2023 presidential election, the APC, Labour Party and the Peoples Democratic Party have disagreed over the matter.
Fitch Solutions Country Risk and Industry Research, the subsidiary of Fitch, a global rating company, in its report, said the APC candidate had a higher possibility of winning, adding that Nigeria might, however, experience political unrest following Tinubu’s winning. But the chief spokesperson for All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, warned that presidential candidates of all political parties must be willing to congratulate the winner of the 2023 elections if the country hoped to avert the imminent political unrest predicted by Fitch Ratings.
“But I am saying this with all sense of humility that Asiwaju is a massive unifier. I just want to say that the talks of unrests and perceived marginalization are what Asiwaju will work on. He will make every single part of this country, every tribe and religion feel wanted. We have absolutely no fear about this at all.”