THE CABLE
Ayodele Fayose, former governor of Ekiti state, has described Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), as a “hurricane” who changed the landscape of Nigerian politics.
Fayose spoke in an interview with Arise TV on Thursday.
Polling 6,101,533 votes, Obi was third in the February 25 presidential election won by Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The LP candidate won 12 states — the same amount as the other two top contenders — and scored 25 percent of votes in 16 states.
Many candidates for elective positions also aligned with the ‘Obidient’ movement across the country while the LP secured its highest-ever national assembly seats.
Speaking on the performance of the former Anambra governor, Fayose praised Obi as “a man that turned around most of the things in our country”.
He added that Obi “exposed so many things” about Nigeria’s electoral process.
