Labour Party (LP) Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi on Thursday, reacted to the just concluded election which held on February 25.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday, February 25 conducted the Presidential and National Assembly elections and subsequently announced candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu winner of the election.
INEC declared the former Lagos State Governor winner of the election after he polled 8,794,726 votes.
The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, announced Tinubu as the winner at the International Collation Centre in Abuja during the early hours of Wednesday.
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The former Lagos State governor came out tops in 12 of Nigeria’s 36 states, and secured significant numbers in several other states to claim the highest number of votes — 8,794,726, almost two million votes more than his closest rival — former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the PDP.
Atiku, 76, who has now run for president six times, got 6,984,520 votes, while the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, who, in less than a year, galvanised young voters in a manner some have described as unprecedented finished the race with 6,101,533.
What Obi Said.
Obi who spoke in Abuja during a press conference stated;
We are going to the court as directed by OBIDIENTS and you will see where and how.
The number of voters is supposed to increased but it didn’t due to manipulation and it is a concern that Nigeria cannot conduct a credible elections, many years after independence.
The APC asks about alliance but we are not in alliance; we are in discussions with other Nigerians who are also aggrieved with the process as we are.
Nigerians especially the youths believed in and worked tirelessly for a new Nigeria. Gratitude to the Obidients, those who believed a new Nigeria is possible and I say to them a new Nigeria is possible and we will work for that new Nigeria that is possible.
The commitment and silence of Nigerians even in the face of unwarranted panic attacks is a testimony that a new Nigeria is indeed possible. Look at people like lady Jennifer who was stabbed and still went on to vote then that gives me the courage to believe that a new Nigeria is indeed possible.
He further stated:
I am challenging the process in its rascality; a process that is faulty, even though BAT and AA are my brothers.
And I am not engaging any international body because this is a Nigerian problem.
Obi further said he is not in alliance with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
We are not in an alliance, we’re discussing and in partnership with other people and any other Nigerian who feels hurt as we do.
Obi while talking about the integrity of the judiciary noted that:
, I have always been in the courts even as a Governor and I have had some successes without compromising. I have never knowingly compromise any law or judicial officer because they are doing their job.
I am appealing to the youth and I am committed to going through this journey with them. This structure of criminality and poverty cannot go away overnight and we will fight till the end.
Also, I am confident the courts will do the right thing
