The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has revealed that Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi and Kwankwaso fuelled the victory of the President-Elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The former governor of Lagos State disclosed this during an appearance on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.
He added that the three major opposition Candidates gave Tinubu the victory when they refused to form an alliance ahead of the election.
Recall that Tinubu polled 8,794,726 votes to defeat Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who got 6,984,520 votes, while Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) polled 6,101,533 to come third and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) finished fourth with 1,496,687 votes in the February 25 Presidential election.
“Politics is a game of numbers and numbers have arithmetic equations – additions and multiplications. APC was adding and multiplying. Some PDP governors – Cross River, Ebonyi, and Zamfara – had come to join APC. PDP was dividing and subtracting.
“So, the major contenders against us in this election – NNPP, PDP, Labour Party, their candidates, were in the same party in 2019. They lost by almost four million votes. So, having now divided that inadequate, insufficient ticket into three, how was it going to add up into an electoral victory?
“So, they handed away the presidential ticket by dividing their powers. Not only did they divide, they now subtracted with the G5 governors. So, it was bad mathematics,” Fashola Argued.