The Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, has disclosed how his family conspired against him to vote for the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, during the presidential election.
It was gathered that the All Progressives
Congress (APC) chieftain disclosed this on Monday during an interview on
Channels Television.
Umahi said it was surprising that President
Muhammadu Buhari and the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, lost their states to the
opposition parties at the February 25 polls.
According to him, he never expected that LP
would win any election in Ebonyi State because of the structure that has been
put in place so that no other political party can even win councilorship in the
state.
The governor said he was also unaware that
his family voted for Peter Obi but voted APC in other elections in the state.
He added that votes obtained by Peter Obi
during the election were the result of a-protest-votes due to Nigeria’s seeming
hardship and challenges.
He said, “In all honesty, I didn’t give any
chance to the Labour Party to win any election in my State (Ebonyi State)
because what we have put in place was such that no other political party should
be able to win anything, not even Councilorship election in my State. I saw the
Labour Party vote as a protest against my Party (APC) and the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP.
“I was very surprised; even in my family,
there was a conspiracy against me. I did not know that they voted for Peter
Obi, but in the other election, they voted for APC because of what we’ve done
in the State.
“It was not a vote for His Excellency Peter Obi.
As such, there is seemingly hardship and challenges in Nigeria”
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