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Labour Party’s Peter Obi:  “We won the election and we will prove it to Nigerians” (video below)

March 2, 2023 by AFRIPOL 1 Comment

Peter Obi speaks for the first time since INEC declared Bola Tinubu the president elect.  Addressing the media in Abuja, Obi spoke on the 2023 presidential election which was held on Saturday, he said “We won the election and we will prove it to Nigerians.”

“The election that we just witnessed had been conducted and the results announced as programmed. It is a clear deviation from electoral rules and guidelines contrary to what we were promised.

“This election did not meet the minimum standard expected of a free, fair, transparent and credible election. It will go down as one of the most controversial elections ever conducted in Nigeria.

“The good and hardworking people of Nigeria have again been robbed by our supposed leaders whom they trusted.

“Let me reassure the good people of Nigeria that we will explore all legal and peaceful options to reclaim our mandate. We won the election and I will prove it to Nigerians,” 

“We must now require that we do the right thing in order to generate the right confidence and moral authority to lead. As you know, the structure of society begins and gradually retrogresses when we act rascally and deliberately in the manipulation of rule of law and suppression of the will of the people.

 “On this issue (presidential election) I am challenging the process. I will challenge this rascality for the future of the country.

“The court exists for this and they have asked me to go to court and I will be going to court,” the former governor said.

Quipped on if he is under pressure, he said no one can put him under pressure for challenging the rascality.

“Please, be assured that this is not the end but the beginning of a journey for the birth of a new Nigeria.

“Datti and I remain absolutely undaunted and deeply committed to the project of a new Nigeria that will be built on honesty, transparency, fairness, justice, and equity.  All the above starts with the process.”

Obi said he had challenged several election results in the past and come out victorious. He promised to approach the court with the firm belief of getting justice.

According to official results from INEC, Labour Party’s Peter Obi gained 25% of the votes,  Atiku Abubakar of the PDP came second with 29%, while the declared winner Bola Tinubu have 37%.

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  1. Livy-Ike says

    March 3, 2023 at 6:09 am

    When the so called rulers of the country believe that might is right, thinking that they can always have their ways in all things including doing away with the will of the people, know that that particular country is in for a doom. Creating a precipice for disaster and forcing illegality through the throats of the people of the country is to say the least albatross..

    If the government and party in power want to continue their mission of misgovernment, which they have been known for, there shouldn’t have been this charade of election organized to deceive the entire citizens. Plunging the people into a lacuna of suffering all these eight years of dastardly rulership of dictator Muhammadu Buhari where hunger and insecurity prevailed and more moreso in the period of a general election is heartless display of hitlerian system.

    In the modern history of man, this so-called 2023 presidential election in Nigeria remains a joke and the greatest robbery of democracy ever recorded. After spending the wealth of the country in this shameful theater of subversion, the APC leaders and government under the most useless leader ever decided to force the hands of Nigerians into anarchy and pandemonium but this time around, the generality of the masses of Nigeria displayed a greater sense of purpose by not jumping into the field of death already programmed for the citizens. They themselves are even in shock that people haven’t taken to the streets to meet the compromised security agencies of the zoo country who are trigger ready to kill the citizens they are required to protect. President Buhari and the APC government of his, the organizers of the greatest election impunity must not go scot free from this orchestrated design to deceive the people of Nigeria and play with the lives of over two hundred million citizens. It is treasonous to do what they did and think that it okay. Buhari and his men, the the electoral umpire INEC must face the music, if not now, they will later trust me!

    Buhari must not be allowed to join his ancestors in peace rather when the long arm of justice catches up with him and his men some day, he will be hospice in the prison. Anybody, tribal or religious group that will bring sentiment into it should better rethink now. Evil must go down one day for we can’t afford to water it from generation to generation. Nigeria has to grow and take it’s place in the comity of nations. Turning back the arm of the clock of progress all the time is mundane and savagery. Enough is enough!
    For Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the appointed hier to Buhari’s zoo kingdom, glory not much Nigerians of all ethnic make up will rise up and demand accountability sooner or later and theirs will be in a civilized fashion. The wind blew and exposed the behind of the chicken. You can not use your dirty money to buy the presidency and think that it’s okay. No! it’s not, your celebration by the power of the Almighty is an abomination unto the him the creator of the universe who stands tall above all beings.

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