Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the elections 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 on the basis of their ethnicity. He continued by saying that Lagos natives gave him more votes than so-called “visitors.”
Obi said while featuring on Arise TV on Monday, “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.”
