A presidential aide, Daniel Bwala, has boasted that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will get up to two million votes in the south-east in the 2027 general elections.
He disclosed this on Wednesday during an interview with Channels Television.
He said Tinubu would secure more than six times the votes he got in the south-east in 2023.
When asked by the interviewer, Seun Okibaloye, how President Tinubu would get the projected two million votes in the region, he said most of the votes Peter Obi recorded in 2023 were due to rhetoric and division.
"You see in the south east, President Bola Tinubu is going to get more than four or six times the votes he got in 2023.
"He will get up to two million votes.
"Whether Peter Obi is a ticket bearer of the party, he has lost his 50 percent votes because they were not votes built on agenda and politics but built on rhetoric and division, and Nigeria's people's eyes are open," he said.
Earlier, Bwala said former President Goodluck Jonathan, if he seeks to recontest in the 2027 elections, cannot beat President Tinubu.
He urged Jonathan not to be deceived into joining the contest as it would damage his reputation.
During the same interview, Bwala, also said Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour at the 2023 election, will not be the flagbearer of any political party, including the African Democratic Congress.
"He is not going to get a ticket in any of the parties. That is Peter Obi. The problem now is that he might not get the vice presidential ticket from the way things are going,” he claimed.