Former Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi in the 2023 Presidential election would not have won the election even if he secured 10 million votes.
While in a podcast recently, Mohammed who served under the Buhari administration, said Obi still could not get “one-quarter of votes cast in 25 states,” a constitutional requirement for winning the presidency.
“Even if Obi had got 10million votes, he wouldn’t have won. This is because he still could not get one-quarter of the votes cast in 25 states. It is even on record that he could not provide agents at about 40,000 polling units,” the ex-minister said.
Speaking on factors that shaped the 2023 election, especially in Lagos state, Mohammed said,
“For the first time in the history of politics in Nigeria, ethnicity and religion played a very frontal role.”
He added that the #EndSARS protests had an impact, particularly in Lagos, where many youths “wanted a pound of flesh,” which did not help the APC or Bola Tinubu.