Reno Omokri, a former adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan, claims that Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are the two candidates who stand to gain the most from the election.
The votes Obi is anticipated to receive are ones that would have naturally gone to the PDP, according to Omokri, who made this announcement on his Facebook page on Wednesday, August 24, 2022.
He added that Tinubu is a superb tactician and claimed that the Obedient has been rendered blind by overwhelming emotion. He is aware that Peter Obi will lose. And he is aware that, if any votes come from him at all, it will be a very small percentage. He is aware that Peter is stealing votes from the PDP.
”The biggest beneficiary of Peter Obi’s Presidential race is Tinubu, not Obidients. Peter won’t affect APC’s votes. The votes he will likely get are votes that would have naturally gone to PDP, including in the Southeast, some non-Yoruba Lagos votes, a chunk of Benue votes, and a few votes in peripheral states.
“There is a lot of hysteria, which has blinded the eyes of the core Obidients. That uncontrollable emotion makes them blind to a lot of things. One of which is that the Yoruba have never voted for a non-Yoruba when a Yoruba is in the race. It does not matter whether or not they like the person.
“Another is that the Hausa and Fulani have only ever voted for a Muslim, whether he be from the North or South. You might raise the issue of Jonathan. I was one of the strategists behind President Jonathan’s 2011 victory and we lost in the North. What we were looking for was 25%, which we got in 2011, but could not get in 2015. In fact, we got less than 20% in Kano, Bauchi, and Yobe in 2011.
“Tinubu is a master tactician. He knows Peter Obi cannot win. And he knows that very, very little of Peter’s votes, if any at all, will come from him. He is aware that Peter is eating into the PDP’s votes. So, he will promote Obi’s candidacy through proxies. Because that is one of his paths to victory! All he would ask from his Southeast foot soldiers is that they should get him 25% of the votes in at least 2 Southeastern states. And he will get it in Imo and Ebonyi, by hook or crook.”
