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Daily Post Nigeria PDP would’ve won 2023 presidential election if Okowa wasn’t Atiku’s running mate – Abba Moro Home News Politics Metro Entertainment Sport Politics PDP would’ve won 2023 presidential election if Okowa wasn’t Atiku’s running mate – Abba Moro Published on April 30, 2025 By Matthew Atungwu The lawmaker representing Benue South Senatorial District, Abba Moro, has claimed that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, would have won the 2023 presidential election if it had not chosen a former governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, as the running mate of its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. Moro made this statement in an interview on Politics Today, a programme on Channels Television, on Tuesday. The lawmaker also described the choice of Okowa as the vice presidential candidate of the PDP in the 2023 general elections as a “serious mistake.
” According to him, Okowa’s claim that he regretted being the PDP vice presidential candidate when he failed to ensure that the PDP won in Delta in the presidential election showed that his soul was not in the party. DAILY POST reports that Okowa, along with the Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, had dumped the PDP for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Okowa, while speaking when he was officially received by the leadership of the APC in Asaba on Monday, said the defection was in the best interest of the people of the state and the need for the people of Delta to connect to Abuja.
However, the Benue senator said, “Given what we know now, with the hindsight that we have now, some of us think that the party would have won the election if other candidates, other than Okowa, had been picked as the vice presidential candidate from the South. “I think there is an error of judgment on the part of everybody that was involved in the choice of Okowa as the candidate. How else would you characterise this scenario, that a sitting governor, a former senator, and a presidential candidate of a party couldn’t deliver his state even to the presidential candidate? “And to think that two out of the senators from that state were from the opposition parties other than the PDP.
“So, I think that picking Okowa as the vice presidential candidate in 2023 was a very serious mistake.” The former Interior Minister reiterated that Okowa’s action showed a lack of commitment to the party. “As it is now, you can safely conclude that we lost the election because of lack of commitment.
“Otherwise, how can you explain that shortly after losing his state, that ordinarily should have been a very easy pick for the PDP, instead of rendering an apology to the party and Nigeria, he’s now talking about regretting being on the ticket? “His soul was not in the PDP. His soul was not in that election, and that is why we performed very miserably in Delta State,” he added. Related Topics: Abba Moro Atiku okowa PDP Don't Miss Defections to APC driven by fear, not public interest – Dalung You may like Delta defections: PDP fights back, vows legal battle to reclaim mandate Defection: PDP threatens legal action against Oborevwori, others Defection: PDP suffering political haemorrhage – Ex-Oyo Attorney-General, Adebayo I’m not leaving PDP, no grudge over Okowa’s defection – Atiku Saraki has no moral right to speak about my defection – Okowa Atiku told me he is set to leave PDP – Okowa Advertise About Us Contact Us Privacy-Policy Terms Copyright © Daily Post Media Ltd.
