Former Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-
Kayode has blamed the people of the
South-East for contributing to the loss of
candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in the
February 23 presidential election.
According to him, the Yoruba nation gave
more votes to the PDP than the Igbo who
had ‘greater stake’ in the party’s ticket.
Taking to his verified Twitter handle on
Sunday, Fani-Kayode queried the South-
East’s 1.67 million votes for Atiku despite
the PDP vice presidential candidate, Peter
Obi, coming from the region.
He noted that the South-West, which has
less stake in the Atiku/Obi ticket as neither
presidential nor his deputy hailed from the
region, contributed 1.75 million votes to the
ticket.
DAILY POST reports the Southeast region
has five states with 10,057,130 registered
voters in the 2019 general election, while
the Southwest region has six states with
16,292,212.
But Fani-Kayode explained that in spite of
that inequality, the South-East should have
given the Atiku/Obi ticket more votes.
“In the 2019 presidential election South
East gave Atiku Abubakar and Peter OBI
1.67 million votes whilst the South West
gave the same Atiku Abubakar and Peter
Obi’s ticket a whooping 1. 75million votes,
notwithstanding that the geo- political
region had no direct stake in that ticket,â€
he said.
Source:
dailypost.ng/2019/03/03/buhari-vs-
atiku-yorubas-voted-pdp-igbo-fani-kayode/
