A lawmaker representing Borno South Senatorial District in
the 9th National Assembly, Ali Ndume says the performance of the Labour Party
(LP) in the 2023 general elections showed that youths and the middle class are
getting tired of the older generation who have been in government for decades.
Ndume, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunday
Politics, also said LP’s performance at the just-concluded elections surpassed
his expectations.
Asked if the outcome of the polls fitted his expectations,
Ndume said, “Yeah, but there were surprises in some places – Lagos, (and the)
South-East. The performance of LP actually is above my expectation.”
Ndume, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Army, has
been in the National Assembly for 20 years. The chieftain of the ruling All
Progressives Congress (APC) said he never thought that the flag bearer of the
Labour Party, Peter Obi could get over six million votes at the poll over a
months ago.
Asked that he never thought that Peter Obi could pull such
strings, Ndume said, “Yeah, even in the general elections all over, especially.
He (Obi) had six million votes.
“It goes to tell something that people don’t talk about: and
that is to say that the signs are out there that the middle income group or
social group and the youths are getting tired of the – do I even include
myself? — upper level: people in their 70s and 80s who have been in the
corridors of power since they were in their 30s.”
At the February 25 poll, APC’s Bola Tinubu, 70, came out
tops in 12 of Nigeria’s 36 states, and secured significant numbers in several
other states to claim the highest number of votes — 8,794,726, almost two
million votes more than his closest rival — former Vice President Atiku
Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Atiku, 76, who has now run for president six times, got
6,984,520 votes, while the LP candidate (Obi), who, in less than a year,
galvanised young voters in a manner some have described as unprecedented
finished the race with 6,101,533.
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Thank you Ali Ndume for daring to say truth, the people are tired of the old cargoes.
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