Festus Keyamo, spokesman for the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council, has stated that President-elect Bola Tinubu was able to win the 2023 presidential election because he is a pan-Nigerian candidate.
This was mentioned by Keyamo in an interview with TVC on Monday.
According to news reports, Tinubu received 8,794,726 votes. With 6,984,520 votes, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) came in second, followed by Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) with 6,101,533 votes.
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In response to his principal’s triumph, Keyamo stated that Tinubu won because he was elected by the people.
He argued Tinubu was “the only candidate that had votes across Nigeria and received votes from across various sections and demographics”.
According to him, “The eventual winner of the election, Tinubu, got his mandate from a crossed section of Nigeria — from north, south, east, and west. He had votes from all parts of the country. It is clear, judging by the voting patterns, it reflects the type of campaign carried out by some candidates of their parties,” Keyamo said.
“We simply won that election by presenting a candidate that is pan-Nigerian. Asiwaju won his votes from all six regions in the country. It was only him that won at least one state in five regions in the country except of course one. The three leading candidates had 12 states each. Atiku had nine states in the north and three in the south. Peter Obi had nine states in the south and three in the north-central — not even the core north. But Tinubu had six states each in the north and six in the south. It clearly shows you the kind of spread and balance of votes he had from different parts of the country.
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“Asiwaju won three regions outright, Atiku had just one and Obi got two. All the regions Asiwaju came second at least. He never took third. That is how he won. Asiwaju was the only candidate that had votes across Nigeria and received across various sections and demographics of Nigerians. Asiwaju was the only pan-Nigerian candidate.”
Meanwhile, both Atiku and Obi have expressed their displeasure with the election results and have threatened to dispute them in court.
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