By Leke Akinrowo
A scientific study of the outcome of the 2023 general elections has confirmed what we have insisted on for two and a half years, that PBAT won fair and square, and that the noise Obidients are making online is partly just a defence mechanism to deal with their loss, and also a lie some of their leaders keep telling them, notably from the very top: Peter Obi. He knew he didn’t win, and Professor Soyinka said so in that oft maligned interview he granted Arise and Channels back in 2023 after the supreme court judgement confirmed PBAT as duly elected, but he wouldn’t face his supporters in honesty and tell them what he knows. After he realised he didn’t win in 2023, instead of telling his impressionable supporters the truth, he rather kept mute and went to court to plead technicalities rather than prove that he actually won.
The new scientific study also confirmed what we’ve also always pointed out that the main rigging in 2023 actually took place in the South East. The data analysis confirms it, just as the available videos from the time showed voters being forced to vote for Labour Party at South Eastern polling units.
This study won’t put the allegations to rest though because Obidients only listen to IPOB propaganda, but hopefully some open-minded ones amongst them can at least disabuse their minds about INEC and the so-called ‘server glitch’ which they’ve always blamed for their loss.
And opposition parties have started to lose again already, going by their unseriousness. Here’s how I think the likely contestants are doing:
Atiku Abubakar:
He is no builder, obviously. Any problem he can’t throw money at and solve, will remain unsolved. His ADC coalition is nothing more than a WhatsApp group right now, and the group admin is AWOL. Apart from Aregbesola who is engaging in some futile and childish antics at grassroots mobilisation in Osun and Ekiti, nobody else in ADC seems to be mobilising anything. They will have ample time to claim rigging in 2027.
Peter Obi:
He is insisting he will run in 2027, but up till now he has no platform and no structure, he’s just relying on that widespread discontent which wedded the EndSARS movement to the famed South Eastern disgruntlement (since Jonathan’s loss in 2015), and IPOB agitations. That unholy wedlock doesn’t seem to still be viable as we speak, seems some of them have splintered. My projection is that Obi will score less than half of the votes he had in 2023 because he has so far failed to consolidate that base. His natural divisiveness which showed in the way he managed to split the Christians in Anambra into Catholics and Anglicans, was what we saw in the way he allowed the Labour Party split into the Nenadi Usman and Abure factions, and all he can do is blame Tinubu, as if Tinubu should be the one to help him organise his party. Peter Obi is just the Christian version of El Rufai, he thrives on division so he can play one side against the other (as in his Yes Daddy audio), and hope to profit from the fallout. He doesn’t know how to bring people together, rather he will encourage them to go asunder and hope to profit thereby. He will fail.
Rotimi Amaechi:
Joker! I reckon he has an oversized impression of himself, thinking he cannot be anybody’s VP. Who is making him VP anyway? What does he even have to bring on the table? His Rivers State has long been taken away from him, so what’s left? And he says he is hungry and doesn’t have money, that his wife has been looking after him, so is it his wife that will put money down for his campaign in 2026/27? Clown!
Who else?
Bola Tinubu:
He remains the most serious and most focussed politician amongst all the prospective contestants. He’s the only one who is consolidating his party, poaching big wigs from his main opponents, and forging a united front towards 2027.
All other unserious opposition jokers should get ready to release new rigging songs in 2027 after they lose.

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