Peter Obi tackles Godswill Apkabio says, ‘I don’t deal with uncommon people’

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, has launched verbal missiles against Senate President Godswill Akpabio following his claim about the former Anambra State Governor.

The head of the upper legislative chamber said recently that the Labour Party presidential candidate did not win the race in Lagos and Ebonyi, stressing that the election was rigged in the two states.

Reacting to the comment by Senator Akpabio about his election, Obi said everything about Akpabio is uncommon. ‘I don’t deal with uncommon people.’

“The Senate President is an uncommon person, everything about him is uncommon. I don’t deal with uncommon people.

“I deal with common people…when uncommon people talk, common people keep quiet.

“I won the election not just in Lagos and Ebonyi, I won the elections in Nigeria. If not for Nigeria being an uncommon place we all know what happened,” Obi said.

Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared that Obi won in Lagos, Nigeria’s most populous state.

The electoral umpire announced that Obi secured 582,454 votes to defeat his closest challenger, Bola Tinubu of the APC, who scored 572,606 votes.

Atiku Abubakar of the PDP came in third with 75,750 votes.

Mr Obi also won in Edo, Cross River, Delta, Lagos, FCT, Plateau, Imo, Ebonyi, Nasarawa, Anambra, Abia and Enugu states.

He lost to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who scored a total of 8,794,726 votes, the highest of all the candidates, therefore meeting the first constitutional requirement to be declared the winner.

He also scored over 25 per cent of the votes cast in 30 states, more than the 24 states constitutionally required.