Former Delta State governor and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) vice-presidential candidate Ifeanyi Okowa says he expected to lose Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election before results were announced. He made the remarks at an event in his home state of Delta, describing that he had concluded in advance that the PDP ticket would not win.
Okowa says his assessment led him to tell Christian leaders ahead of the vote that the All Progressives Congress (APC) would win, with PDP finishing second and the Labour Party in third. He links his comments to the outcome later released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which declared APC candidate Bola Tinubu the winner.
The sources report that Atiku Abubakar finished second and Labour Party candidate Peter Obi came third, aligning with Okowa’s earlier prediction. Both accounts present Okowa’s statement as a retrospective claim about his prior expectations for the election results.
