Obi spoke to Arise TV, stating that people voted for him based on his pedigree and not ethnicity, adding that he even got more votes from Lagos indigenes than those referred to as “visitors.” He said that he won over 50% of the votes in Rivers State, and if the real votes of the state were counted, he would have emerged victorious.
In the election results declared in Rivers, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress won with 231,591 votes, while the Labour Party scored 175,071 votes.
However, Wike recently said that Obi was the hero of the elections and that power would have remained in the North if Obi didn’t contest. Speaking to Igbo traders at a town hall in Port Harcourt, Wike said Obi’s participation in the election guaranteed the emergence of a southerner as the president-elect.
The governor explained that the states where Obi recorded victories would have been won by the Peoples Democratic Party and allowed the North to retain power through the PDP candidate, Atiku Abubakar.