The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, said the chunk of votes his counterpart in the Labour Party, Peter Obi, took from the PDP’s traditional strongholds in the South-East and South-South is insufficient to make him president.
Atiku said that “It is a fact that he took our votes in the South-East and South-South.”
The former vice president, however, added that “That of course will not make him a president. You all know that to become a president in country you need votes from everywhere.”
He stated these while fielding questions from journalists after a press conference on the outcome of the February 25 presidential election on Thursday evening.
Atiku also disclosed that had Obi remained in PDP, he would have been offered the vice presidential slot on his ticket.
Recall that Obi’s Labour Party won in a landslide in all southeastern states as well as in three South-South States of Edo, Delta and Cross River.
Obi was the running mate to Atiku in the 2019 presidential election but left he PDP a few weeks before the party’s primary citing a gang up against his emergence.
The former Anambra State governor enjoyed wavy support from his Igbo kinsmen and many youths after he emerged as Labour Party presidential candidate.
WITHIN NIGERIA had reported that INEC declared Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as President-elect after he polled 8,794,726 votes to defeat PDP’s Atiku Abubakar, winning 12 of 36 states of Nigeria.
Atiku came second polling 6,984,520 votes, while Obi came third, polling 6,101,533 votes.
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