PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: WHY PETER OBI IS MY REAL HERO - WIKE

Nyesom Wike

Peter Obi, the Labour Party's nominee for president, has been hailed as the winner of the recently-concluded February 25 presidential election by Rivers State Governor 

Nyesom Wike.

In Port Harcourt on Saturday, Wike spoke in a town hall with Igbo businesspeople.

Despite not being proclaimed the winner, he said that Obi's involvement in the election meant that a southerner would become the next president.

Wike claims that Obi won elections that the Peoples Democratic Party, or PDP, would have won and hence maintained power in the North.

"In this election that we just did," he said, "Obi is my hero, as far as I'm concerned. If he didn't contest, power would have remained in the North," he said.