Peter Obi Couldn’t Have Won 2023 Election Even With 10 Million Votes – Lai Mohammed

Former Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said that the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, would not have emerged winner even if he had secured 10 million votes.

Speaking during a recent podcast appearance, Lai Mohammed, who served under the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari, said Obi failed to meet the constitutional requirement of securing at least one-quarter of votes cast in 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 stated.

Commenting on the dynamics that shaped the 2023 presidential election, particularly in Lagos State, Mohammed noted that ethnicity and religion played a prominent role in the electoral process.

“For the first time in the history of politics in Nigeria, ethnicity and religion played a very frontal role,” he said.

He also pointed to the influence of the #EndSARS protests, especially in Lagos, suggesting that lingering anger among youths negatively affected the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

According to Lai Mohammed, many young voters “wanted a pound of flesh,” a sentiment he said shaped voting patterns during the election.