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How Obi Truncated My Chance Of Defeating Tinubu – Atiku

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar has stated that his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi, truncated his chance of winning the last Saturday’s presidential election.
AN24 reported that the Independent National Electoral Commission declared the All Progressives Congress’ Bola Tinubu as the winner of the well-contested election early Wednesday.
Speaking at a news conference in Abuja on Thursday, the former vice-president admitted that the PDP lost a considerable number of votes to Peter Obi, especially in the eastern part of the country, where Obi hails from.
Atiku said, “Obi took our votes in the Southeast and the Southsouth but that alone cannot make him president. We are ready to dialogue with Obi with a view to forming an alliance.
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“Obi was in a rush before the primaries. The PDP governors insisted that they must produce the president, vice president and Chief of Staff among their ranks.
“Peter (Obi) got scared and left the PDP. But, I stood my ground against the governors and fought my way through and got the PDP ticket. If Obi had stayed back, perhaps I would have picked him as my running mate.”
Recall that Obi got 6, 101,533 from the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). But, the biggest of the votes – 1,960,589 – were secured in the Southeast states of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo.
The other states won by the LP candidate outside of his Southeast zone are Lagos, Plateau and Cross River, Edo, Delta and Nasarawa.
The PDP and LP candidates have, however, rejected the result by INEC.
