Former Minister of Information and Culture, Alh. Lai Mohammed, has insisted that the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, Mr Peter Obi, could not have emerged winner of the contest even if he had secured as many as 10 million votes.
Mohammed made the assertion while speaking on broadcaster Edmund Obilo’s podcast, ‘State Affairs’, where he explained that Obi failed to meet the constitutional requirement of securing one-quarter of the votes cast in at least 25 States of the federation.
“Even if Obi had got 10 million 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 former minister said.
Speaking on the dynamics that shaped the outcome of the 2023 presidential election, particularly in Lagos State, Mohammed said ethnicity and religion played an unusually prominent role.
“For the first time in the history of politics in Nigeria, ethnicity and religion played a very frontal role,” he said.
