Peter Obi Blindsided APC In Lagos – Fashola

Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of works and Housing has said the victory of the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi in Lagos State during the February 25 election surprised the All Progressives Congress (APC).

“Yeah, blindsided us, without a doubt. They turned out their voters and in the subsequent gubernatorial election, we turned out our voters,” Fashola said in ‘Channels TV’s Sunday Politics’ when asked whether LP’s victory in Lagos at the presidential poll surprised the APC.

VerseNews Nigeria reports that the former Lagos State governor noted said his party knew states where it had high chances of winning and had concentrated its energy in those states.

He noted that in some of the states, his party was blindsided because the opposition parties turned down their voters.

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“In some cases, you get blindsided. We were blindsided in Lagos because the opposition turned out their voters there,” he said.

“And you also saw that a party that has been competitive for 24 years, the umbrella party, suddenly disappeared. It showed that their support base has shifted.”

This Online News Media reported that Obi polled 582,454 votes to trounce Tinubu, also a former Lagos State governor who scored 572,606 votes.

However, Tinubu won the highest total votes in the election and was declared winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)