Ismail Abdulazeez Mantu Reporting
Nyesom Wike, the Honourable Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has said the flag bearer of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, failed to win the 2023 presidential election because Nigerians did not vote for him.
This was revealed on Wednesday evening while the former Rivers State Governor was speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme which was duly monitored by Truth Live News.
Wike said he supported the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the expense of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, the standard bearer of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the keenly contested poll.
When asked whether Obi would have handled the major issues confronting the Nigerian economy better than Tinubu if he had been elected, Wike said he doesn’t discuss presidential candidates any longer.
“I don’t want to discuss social media issue,” the FCT minister said. “I don’t discuss about presidential candidate any longer; I discuss about the economy, the President, what he has to offer.”
“If he (Obi) would have been better, Nigerians would have voted for him.”
Obi, a former governor of Anambra State, came third in the election won by APC’s Tinubu. The LP candidate and his PDP counterpart are in court to challenge the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declaring Tinubu as winner of the poll.