Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) candidate for president in the polls on February 25, has said that Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike conspired against him in the State.
Obi, who spoke to Arise TV on Monday, also accused foul play in the presidential election results in Rivers, alleging that he won in the State but Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was declared to have won with 231,591 votes while the LP earned 175,071 votes.
According to Obi, individuals who voted for him knew what he stood for and did not do so on the basis of their race.
He continued by saying that Lagos natives gave him more votes than so-called “visitors.”
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“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 Igbos 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 Igbos in Nasarawa, are the Igbos in Plateau, are the Igbos 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, I won. I had over 50 something per cent of the vote. The other two parties were sharing the others.”
