Former Minister of Information and National Orientation, Lai Mohammed, has declared that ex-Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, would not have become president even if he had polled 10 million votes.
Mohammed said that, contrary to widespread perception, Obi
was not rigged out of the 2023 presidential election, stressing that he did not
constitute a headache during the election.
Featuring on Edmund Obilo’s podcast, State Affairs, the
immediate past minister recalled how he and his team travelled abroad to
educate the international community that Obi never won the election.
He said, “Even if Peter Obi had won 10 million votes, he
could not have become president.
“After the election, its legitimacy was being questioned, if
you remember. As a matter of fact, the Labour Party, if you go to social media
in 2023, you would feel it won the election; they were everywhere on social
media.
“And they did not win the election. Unfortunately, the
perception out there was that they won and were rigged out. They did not win
and were not rigged out.
“I took it upon myself and my team to meet think tanks in
the US, UK, and international media, and we explained to them why Peter Obi
could not have won the presidential election.
“The constitution of Nigeria is very clear: you need two
requirements to win the presidential election. First, you must have scored the
highest number of votes; second, you must also have scored at least one-quarter
of the votes cast in two-thirds of the states.
“The results are there: Obi did not come first, he did not
even come second; he came a close third to Atiku.
“However, he scored one-quarter of the votes cast in 15
states, Atiku scored one-quarter of the votes cast in 21 states, and only
Asiwaju had the majority of votes and one-quarter of votes cast in 29 states of
the federation.
“Obi was not the biggest headache, and I think that if he
had stayed with Atiku, PDP would have won.”
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