The Senate Leader revealed his surprise at Peter Obi’s massive votes due to the OBIDIENTS Movement.
At the election on February 25, the 70-year-old Bola Tinubu of the APC won in 12 of Nigeria’s 36 states and secured significant support in a number of others, garnering 8,794,726 votes, nearly two million more than his nearest rival, former vice president Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The LP candidate (Obi), who in less than a year galvanized young voters in a way that some have deemed unprecedented, finished the election with 6,101,533, while Atiku, 76, who has already campaigned for president six times, received 6,984,520 votes…..CONTINUE READING
Meanwhile, Ali Ndume, a legislator for Borno South Senatorial District in the 9th National Assembly, claimed that the Labour Party’s (LP) result in the general elections of 2023 shown that young people and the middle class were growing weary of the older generation, which has held power for decades.
Ndume, a guest on Sunday Politics on Channels Television, added that LP’s success in the recently held elections exceeded 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 and confessed 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.”
