President-elect Bola Tinub reacted to a statement by Labor Party, LP presidential candidate Peter Obi.
At a press conference on Thursday, Obi claimed he won the presidential election that just ended.
In a statement signed by the Communications Director and Chief Spokesperson of the Tinub/Shetima Presidential Election Council, Festus Keyamo advised the former governor of Anambra State to stop misleading the gullible, urging Tinub to win the election. said he had neither won nor won the
According to him, “We are issuing this short statement in response to a press conference held today by the defeated Labor candidate Peter Obi. He told the world, but he was deprived of victory.
“After President-elect Asiwaju Bora Ahmed Tinub was officially declared the winner of the 2023 presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission and received a certificate of surrender (together with the incoming Vice-President), he , would have ignored these ongoing false claims being peddled by Mr. Peter Obi and his supporters. But we recognise his motive of doing this is to simply delegitimise the mandate freely given to the President-Elect by majority of Nigerians.
“Mr. Peter Obi is always quick to cite some isolated incidents of irregularities outside his strongholds that could not have SUBSTANTIALLY affected the outcome of the results in those areas, whereas he DELIBERATELY fails to comment on tons and tons of evidence circulating everywhere wherein his supporters in his strongholds engaged in thuggery, hooliganism, violence and outright falsification of figures against our Party and our supporters. He pretends to play the victim, whereas he is the greatest culprit in this game of brickbats.
“Mr. Peter Obi knows HE COULD NOT HAVE won having played the most divisive religious politics in our history and the pattern of the votes clearly show that; Mr. Obi KNOWS HE COULD NOT HAVE WON having broken out as a fragment of the main opposition, the PDP and all he could hope for was to harvest a portion of the votes of PDP in a section of the country and the results do NOT tell a lie; Mr. Obi knows HE COULD NOT HAVE WON, when he presented himself as a tribal candidate and was only campaigning in settlements of his tribesmen in other States outside the South East instead of appealing to all and sundry; Mr. Obi knows he could not have won having joined the Labour Party few months ago and bought the ticket of the Party without valid Primaries and thereby polarised his party; Mr. Peter Obi KNOWS HE DID NOT WIN because he did not even fulfil the minimum requirement of our constitution which requires a spread of 25 percent in two-thirds of the States of the Federation. He did not come close. His divisive rhetoric made him unapproachable.
“Peter Obi claiming victory is also ridiculous. His new partner PDP also claims victory. They both claimed to have taken first and agreed to protest the examiner together to record this. They see no contradiction in their actions.” We stand by that statement.
“His elected president, ASIWAJU Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has reached out to his defeated opponents, including Peter Obi, for a community outreach to participate in nation-building.
“Peter Obi needs to accept the hand of friendship and brotherhood from the incoming president as a devoted patriot, rather than indulging in this overt boast.
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