The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25 elections, Peter Obi, has said that people that voted for him did not do so on the basis of ethnicity even as he said that Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, came out against him during the elections.
Obi said the electorate knew what he stood for. He added 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.
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“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.
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 hadn’t contested.
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