“A combination of the exit of Peter Obi, Rabiu Kwankwaso from the PDP, and the rebellion by the G5 led by Wike cost you the Election. Do the math”
Reno Omokri, has reacted to the claim by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar that he was rigged out of the 2023 Presidential Election.
In a statement he released on social media, Omokri noted that the former Vice President, in a critique of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s leadership, made several statements that perhaps were not an accurate reflection of the situation we now find ourselves in as a country.
“Firstly, I supported, campaigned for and believed in the candidacy of Waziri Atiku Abubakar. However, the election was not stolen from him or the Nigerian public by either the Independent National Electoral Commission or the All Progressives Congress.
“It would have been hard for us in the Peoples Democratic Party to win the 2023 Presidential election.”
According to him, with the exit of Peter Obi, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and the activities of the PDP five governors, led by Nyesome Wike, it was difficult for the PDP to win the poll.
“So, while Tinubu was adding, we were subtracting. If you minus the Southeast votes, Kano votes, and Oyo, Benue and Rivers, you will see that it roughly equals the 6,984,520 votes polled by Waziri Atiku Abubakar in 2023.
“We in the PDP were not rigged out, nor was the election stolen from us. Rather, we were defeated by the disunity in our party.
“It was for the same reason we lost the 2015 election when the PDP split into PDP and n-PDP, with the n-PDP and its four Governors eventually merging with the APC along with Kwankwaso.
“2023 was just a replay of 2015. History did not repeat itself. We rather repeated history.”
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