The vice-presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, Rotimi Amaechi, says Atiku Abubakar, the party’s presidential candidate for the 2027 election, has 13 states in the North-East and West and would win the presidential election.

Mr Amaechi, who said this on Saturday during the party’s presidential campaign in Bauchi, said the North-Central region would be a battleground.

“We are the only party that comes with 13 states,” Mr Amaechi said. “The whole of North-East, the whole of North-West, that is what? 13, right? Let the president tell us how many states he comes with. He comes with only five in the South-West,” he said.

He said six states would vote for the Allied Peoples Movement in the South-West, whether President Bola Tinubu likes it or not.

“We will fight with him in the South-South. We will fight with him in North-Central and be sure; be rest assured, Niger, Kogi, Nasarawa will be in our kitty easily,” Mr Ameachi said.

Mr Amaechi, a former governor of Rivers State, said Mr Tinubu would not go to the South-East, assuring supporters that the party would win the 2027 general elections.

“Right? Okay, he will not go to the South-East at all. Be rest assured, we will win,” he said.