A former Minister of Information and National Orientation, Labaran Maku, on Tuesday admitted that many in the camps of the ruling All Progressives Congress and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, underestimated the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, and his supporters known as the ‘Obidients’.
“But the young people seized the initiative from the politicians. And for the first time – what we saw in Nasarawa, Edo, several other places, and in Delta State where the PDP vice presidential candidate comes from – we saw that young people were serious about what they were doing and they took advantage of social media to project a programme which has shaken the nation.”
While admitting that the party lost the presidential election in the state to the Labour Party, he claimed that the ruling All Progressives Congress win in the governorship poll was faulty. Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission, in the early hours of March 1, declared the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, president-elect after the 70-year-old polled 8,794,726 votes to win the 2023 presidential election.
However, Tinubu did not have it all rosy as the PDP candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and Obi of the Labour Party, who emerged as a third force, shook the former governor, especially in Lagos State where Obi trounced Tinubu to win the presidential election in the state that many considered a strong hold of the APC leader.All rights reserved.
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