Atiku Had 489,000 Votes In Katsina, Tinubu Had 482,000, Obi Had 6,376, Kwankwaso Had 69,000 - Momodu

ADC chieftain Chief Dele Momodu has alleged that Obidient supporters celebrating the alliance between Peter Obi and Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso are ignoring the hard electoral data from the 2023 general election that tells a very different story.

Speaking on Arise TV, Momodu said, "Now, let's start from Katsina in the last election. Atiku had 489,000 votes, Tinubu had 482,000, Peter Obi had just 6,376. And then Kwankwaso, a northerner, had 69,000. 

So those who are jubilating that the election will be over by noon, they are being very naive. In Kano: Atiku had 131,716. Obi had 28,511. Tinubu had 511,341. And Rabiu Kwankwaso had 997,279. You can see the pattern," he said.

He pressed further into the Northeast to strengthen his argument. "Yobe: Atiku had 198,567. Obi had 2,046. Tinubu had 151,000. And then Kwankwaso, a northerner, had 18,000," he said.

He argued that the total figures across the Northeast shows how Atiku pulled in over 1.7 million votes in the region, and Tinubu had over 1.1 million votes but Obi had just 315,000, and Kwankwaso, despite being a northern politician, only 126,343.

According to Chief Dele Momodu, those numbers make it impossible to justify the confidence being expressed by Obidients who believe Kwankwaso as running mate to Obi has already settled the 2027 contest in their favour.