We encouraged voting for Obi to reduce Atiku’s votes – Wike on G5 strategy

FCT Minister Nyesom Wike has rejected claims that helium manipulated the 2023 statesmanlike predetermination successful Rivers State and different parts of the South-South to assistance President Bola Tinubu decision Labour Party campaigner Peter Obi.

Wike spoke on Wednesday while addressing journalists successful Abuja, saying the allegations were based connected a mendacious communicative dispersed chiefly connected societal media.

The curate had earlier sparked contention during an interrogation connected TVC’s Journalists’ Hangout, wherever helium said the G5 governors utilized a governmental strategy that helped Obi summation votes successful immoderate parts of the South-South.

Some absorption politicians and commentators interpreted the remarks arsenic an admittance that the predetermination had been manipulated.

Wike, however, said that was not what helium meant. He explained that the G5 had adopted a strategy to trim the power of Atiku Abubakar, the statesmanlike campaigner of the Peoples Democratic Party, alternatively than rig the election.

Responding to claims that helium personally changed predetermination results to favour Tinubu, Wike questioned however 1 idiosyncratic could manipulate results from thousands of polling units.

“People who don’t understand, however tin they accidental I rigged the election? How would I person done it? So, I conscionable took the effect sheets, wrote it, and gave it to INEC?” helium asked.

Wike besides dismissed...