The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in Nigeria’s presidential elections Mr. Peter Obi has vowed to prove in Nigerians in the court that his party won the February 25th 2023 election.
Peter Obi, who was awarded 25% of the votes according to official results, was speaking in public for the first time since the weekend poll.
“We won the election and we will prove it to Nigerians,” he said.
Bola Tinubu of the ruling APC party was declared the winner, with 37% of the vote.
Atiku Abubakar of the main opposition PDP came second with 29%.
Mr Obi said Saturday’s elections would go down as “one of the most controversial elections in Nigeria’s history”.
“The good and hard-working people of Nigeria have again been robbed by our supposed leaders whom they trusted,” he told journalists on Thursday.
He has 21 days from the election day to challenge the result at Nigeria’s highest appeal court.
When asked by a journalist from Channels Television if he can you prove the election results were manipulated? Obi responded, if I tell you everything, what will I tell the courts? You know I’m ‘Obidient’. They said we should go to court; I will go there & prove it! I will challenge this rascality for the future of this Country!
His challenge is likely to be based on the inability of the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) to publish results from the polling units in real time using a new electronic transmission system and mutilations of the materials presented at the collation centres.
Although Mr Obi was with the PDP until last year, and was its vice-presidential candidate in 2019, he was seen by many as a fresh face, and mounted a strong challenge to the two parties which have dominated Nigeria since the end of military rule in 1999.
He gained particular support among young people who feel they have been failed by previous generations of political leaders.
