Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the polls on February 25, has alleged that Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers State, spoke out against him throughout the election.
The electorate knew what he stood for, according to Obi, who said that those who supported him did not do so based on their ethnicity. He continued by saying that Lagos natives gave him more votes than so-called “visitors.”
“In the South-East, the situation is similar; people know who I am, what I stand for, and that I have kept my word. People are aware that I stuck to my word.
People go about and say, ‘Oh!’ It is a simple thing,’ Igbo voters helped him win in Lagos, therefore how many Igbo people reside there? I received more votes from Lagos natives than from so-called tourists.
Are Igbo people present in Abuja, Nasarawa, or Plateau? Even though the governor of Rivers publicly opposed me and everything, I still… Reuben, I would have won if Rivers’ actual votes had been counted. I received more than 50% of the vote.
“The other two parties were sharing the others,” Obi claimed while featured on Arise TV on Monday.
According to a source, Wike recently asserted that Obi was still the election’s hero and that if the LP’s front-runner hadn’t run, the North would have continued to hold power.
Despite Obi not being declared the winner, Wike claimed in a town hall speech to Igbo traders on Saturday in Port Harcourt, the state capital, that Obi’s election participation ensured a southerner will become the next president.
The governor claimed that the People’s Democratic Party would have won the states where Obi scored victories, maintaining its hold on power in the North.
Obi is my hero in this race, as far as I’m concerned, he declared. Power would have remained in the North if he hadn’t challenged.
After receiving 231,591 votes from the state’s 23 local government areas, the All Progressives Congress candidate Bola Tinubu was declared the winner in Rivers.
The Labour Party won five local government districts, the APC won 14, and the PDP took home four.
According to the final results, the APC received 231 591 votes, while the Labour Party received 175 71 and the PDP received 88 468 votes, placing them second and third, respectively, according to the state collation officer, Prof. Charles Adias.
