A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bode George, has revealed why he did not campaign or vote for the party's presidential flag bearer, Atiku Abubakar in the February 25 election.
As disclosed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the former vice president came in second place, polling 6,954,286 votes behind the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, who garnered 8,739,249 votes.
In a chat with Arise TV on Tuesday, George disclosed that the reason he did not throw his weight behind Atiku is that his zone was not represented in PDP's leadership for the 2023 election.
He stated that he could not urge the people from his zone to cast their votes for someone who did not see them as people who could be top members of the party.
“I told them before that if they do not rearrange the top echelon of the management of the party, I will not vote for Atiku, because you know what happened?...
“Where is my zone? If you don’t consider my people as that important to be part of the top echelon of your management… How do I campaign for you?
“If you don’t respect my people in politics, what am I doing there?”, George asked.
Responding to why he did not back the party's guber candidate, Olajide Adediran (aka Jandor), he said the latter did not handle expectations properly.
“All the normal tenets, routes, expectations from the candidate of the party were not handled properly by this young man (Olajide Adediran).
“We spoke to him, he headed in the direction that he wanted.”
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