The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 25th of February elections, Peter Obi has opened up on how the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike allegedly came out against him during the just concluded elections.
according to Obi, people who voted for him did not do so on the basis of ethnicity.
He stressed that the electorate knew what he stood for while adding that he even got more votes from Lagos indigenes than those referred to as ‘visitors.’
‘In the South-East, it is a similar situation, people know me, people know what I stand for, people know I have kept my promises. People know I’ve kept to what I have said.
‘It is a simple thing, people go about and say, oh! he got votes in Lagos because of the Igbo, and I ask how many Igbos live in Lagos? I got more votes from indigenes in Lagos than those who you can call visitors.’
“Are the Igbo in Nasarawa, are the Igbo in Plateau, are the Igbo in Abuja? In Rivers, where you know that the governor came out against me and everything, I still… If the real votes of Rivers were counted, Reuben, I won. I had over 50 something per cent of the vote.
“The other two parties were sharing the others,” Obi said while featuring on Arise TV on Monday.
Africa Today News, New York reports that Wike however recently said that Obi remained the hero of the elections, saying power would have remained in the North if the LP standard bearer didn’t contest.
Wike, who addressed a town hall with Igbo traders in Port Harcourt, the state capital, on Saturday said despite Obi not having been declared the winner, his participation in the election guaranteed the emergence of a southerner as the President-elect.
According to the governor, the states where Obi recorded victories would have been won by the Peoples Democratic Party, thereby retaining power in the North.