PDP Chieftain Claims Mbah Didn’t Win 2023 Enugu Election After Governor’s Defection

Umar Sani, ex-spokesman of former Vice President Namadi Sambo, has revealed that Peter Mbah did not legitimately win the 2023 Enugu governorship election.

Sani made the claim in the wake of Governor Mbah’s switch to the APC.

He said the PDP remains unshaken by the wave of defections, insisting that the crises rocking the party are “externally induced.”

“What is happening within the PDP is being orchestrated by fifth columnists,” Sani said.

He dismissed suggestions that the defection of Mbah, arguing that Enugu “has always been a PDP state.”

“Mbah’s defection will not rattle the PDP because he is swimming against the tide. In fact, he did not even win the election,” he added.

The 2023 polls, as declared by INEC, handed Mbah victory with 160,895 votes to his closest rival, Chijioke Edeoga of the Labour Party, who polled 157,552 votes — a margin of just about 3,300 votes.

Edeoga’s camp rejected the results, accusing the tribunal of ignoring evidence of electoral fraud and irregularities, especially in Nkanu East LGA where over-voting was alleged.