{"id":134927,"date":"2024-10-20T12:38:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T11:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/peter-obis-group-fighting-me-wike-reveals-why-he-rejected-lps-presidential-candidate"},"modified":"2024-10-20T13:50:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T12:50:51","slug":"peter-obis-group-fighting-me-wike-reveals-why-he-rejected-lps-presidential-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/peter-obis-group-fighting-me-wike-reveals-why-he-rejected-lps-presidential-candidate","title":{"rendered":"Peter Obi\u2019s group fighting me \u2013 Wike reveals why he rejected LP\u2019s presidential candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has alleged that Peter Obi\u2019s group is now fighting him because he refused to join forces with them ahead of the 2023 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Wike said Peter Obi and his lobbyists lobbied him so much prior to the polls but he turned them down, believing Obi would not win the election.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Port Harcourt on Saturday, Wike said he was not ready to waste Rivers votes on someone he thought would not fly.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201cPeter Obi\u2019s group lobbied me so much. They cannot deny it. And I said \u2018look, this one won\u2019t fly.\u2019 \u2018Rivers State will not vote for where it\u2019s not going to fly\u2019. There\u2019s also a gang up and I say, \u2018look, enough is enough.\u2019 They want to fight us back. They\u2019re fighting themselves. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stories of alleged massive rigging of the 2023 presidential election and rewriting of result sheets in favour of the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>There were also reports of political thugs allegedly deployed by Wike compelling voters to cast their votes for a particular candidate and also stories of votes buying.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Peter Obi of the Labour Party, all won 12 states each and Tinubu was declared the winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for polling the highest number of votes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has alleged that Peter Obi\u2019s group is now fighting him because he refused to join forces with them ahead of the 2023 general elections. 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