Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s nominee for president, has been hailed as the winner of the recently-concluded February 25 presidential election by Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike.
In Port Harcourt on Saturday, Wike spoke in a town hall with Igbo businesspeople.
Although not being proclaimed the winner, he said that Obi’s involvement in the election meant that a southerner would become the next president.
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Wike claims that Obi won elections that the Peoples Democratic Party, or PDP, would have won and hence maintained control in the North.
Obi is my hero in this race, as far as I’m concerned, he declared. Power would have remained in the North if he hadn’t run for office, he claimed.
