Ali Ndume, a lawmaker for Borno South Senatorial District in the 9th National Assembly, claims that the Labour Party’s (LP) performance in the general elections of 2023
demonstrated that young people and the middle class were growing weary of the older generation, which has held power for decades.
Ndume stated this as well as the fact that LP’s performance in the recently concluded elections exceeded his expectations on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.
Ndume responded, “Yeah, but there were surprises in some places – Lagos, (and the) South-East,” when asked if the election results were in line with his expectations. Actually, LP’s performance exceeded my expectations.
Ndume, the Senate Committee on Army Chairman, has been in
20 years in the National Assembly. The leader of the opposition Labour Party, Peter Obi, received over six million votes in the election a few months ago, according to the chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Ndume expressed shock at Peter Obi’s ability to exert such influence and responded, “Yeah, even in the general elections everywhere, especially. Obi received six million votes.
The signs that the middle income group or social group, as well as the youths, are growing weary of the – do I even include myself? – are out there, which goes to show something that people don’t talk about. — upper level: Individuals who have walked the corridors in their 70s and 80s
since they were in their 30s, of power.
At the election on February 25, the 70-year-old Bola Tinubu of the APC won in 12 of Nigeria’s 36 states and secured significant support in a number of others, garnering 8,794,726 votes, nearly two million more than his nearest rival, former vice president Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The LP candidate (Obi), who in less than a year galvanized young voters in a way that some have deemed unprecedented, finished the race with 6,101,533, while Atiku, 76, who has now run for president six times, received 6,984,520 votes.
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