Peter Obi Will Be Known In History As A Dangerous Politician – APC PCC Discloses Reason LP And PDP Lost 2023 Election

The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council (APC PCC) has disclosed the reason Peter Obi of the Labour Party and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party lost the 2023 presidential election to it’s candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Naija News recalls that Atiku and Obi had alleged that Tinubu had rigged the election and vowed to recover their mandate by heading to court.

Tinubu in his acceptance speech had urged the duo to work alongside him in moving the country forward. However, his gesture was rebuffed as they promised to challenge his victory in court.

Atiku and Obi spoke at separate news conferences in Abuja on Thursday.

Speaking on the situation in a press conference on Friday in Abuja the APC PCC Special Adviser on Media and Communication, Dele Alake, argued that Atiku and Obi lost the election because the South East and South South that were traditional strongholds of PDP constituted the core support base for the Labour Party.

Alake opined that the PDP lost their stronghold to Obi.

He insisted that both candidates were wasting their time by trying to seek redress in court.

While welcoming their moves to explore the judiciary, Alake said it was surprising that both Atiku and Obi also discredited the presidential election.

He said, “Contrary to the false claims of Atiku and Obi, the reasons for losing the elections were foretold. Besides the delusional expectations created during the campaigns to hoodwink the public, most PDP leaders knew their party had been decimated by Peter Obi. The South East and South South that were traditional strongholds of PDP constituted the core support base for the Labour Party. PDP went into this election without its limbs and lied to itself that it could win the race. It is worthy of note that Atiku also accepted this fact during his press conference yesterday, when he lamented that his party’s votes in the South East and South South regions were carted away by the LP.

“The PDP also found itself in No.3 in Kano, with a former member, Kwankwaso running away with over 900,000 votes.

“How far could the PDP have gone with what was left of it? Not so far as the results of the elections have shown. The members of G5 were key leaders of the party who had substantial political influence. They also went away with their own pound of flesh, leaving a crippled PDP to scavenge for crumps of votes.

“For Obi, he would go down as Nigeria’s most dangerous and divisive politician. He elevated his well-known clannish mentality to a most unfortunate height by openly anchoring his campaign on religion and ethnicity. He presented himself as a poster boy for and a champion of our country’s fault lines. He took advantage of our youths whose expectations are fast paced, who are uninterested in excuses, and who were in search of a hero. He pumped up their sentiments and rode on their emotions while grandstanding as a saviour. It was a false pretence. Obi’s credentials are eternally stained as a former governor with no remarkable legacy.

“If Labour Party could not fill up its quota for polling booth agents with a shortfall of over 40, 000, how did it intend to compete with political parties like APC and PDP? It would be interesting to see what evidence of rigging Labour Party will present before the court when the party could not appoint agents to monitor nearly a quarter of the venues of the election.”