BEFORE
Dateline: Abuja, August 7, 2020
“It (incumbency) could have been a big problem if the governor performs well while governing his state. He could have been an asset to the PDP. But, I assure you that the governor is a liability. In fact, it is even better for us that we are contesting with a serving governor who failed woefully.
“He failed woefully in the area of human development. He failed woefully in the area of providing infrastructural facilities to the good people of Edo State, he failed most woefully in the execution of constitutional provision in the state, especially pertaining to the legislature.
“14 members were out of the legislature for 13 good months. When we calculated, we saw those 14 legislators are representing 60 per cent of the population.All their constituents are unhappy that elected legislators were not given the chance to participate in the legislations in that state.
“In fact, all the legislations made should be considered as illegal. So, we are ready to fight somebody who has failed and it is an advantage to us” — Chairman of the APC Governorship Election Campaign for Edo State, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, after emerging from a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja
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AFTER
Dateline: Sunrise Daily on Channels Television, September 21, 2020
“We (APC) would have loved to win and quite frankly, I was optimistic up to three weeks ago; the polls indicated that we were going to win. I don’t know what happened in the last three weeks of the campaign.
“As you know, a large number of voters make up their minds in the last two weeks of the election. Many voters decide no matter what happens, this is how I am voting but most people want to wait and make up their minds in the last two weeks.
“Three weeks ago, the polls clearly showed that APC was going to win but the result came out differently from what we expected.
“Obaseki has won, that’s it. You can’t go into an election without the possibility of losing.
“The election was reasonably decent. We were all worried about violence but there was very little violence or none at all” — Kaduna State Governor, Ahmed El-Rufai, on why the APC lost the September 19 Governorship Election in Edo State