The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Gregory Obi, has said that he won last Saturday’s presidential election and would prove it.
Daily Trust reports Obi saying this on Thursday in Abuja at an ongoing press conference that he called his first reaction to the election.
The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Yakubu, declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as the winner of the election on Wednesday morning.
Yakubu, who announced the final result at exactly 3:55 am Wednesday, after three days of collation of results from across the 36 states of the federation and FCT, said Tinubu polled a total 8,794,726 votes.
Tinubu defeated his main rival, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who recorded 6,984,520 votes, and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), who polled 6,101,533 votes to come second and third, respectively.
Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) was fourth with 1,496,687 votes.
However, Obi said the election was a daylight robbery and would use all legitimate means, including the courts, to reclaim the mandate given to him and his running mate, Senator Datti Baba-Ahmed.
He also berated INEC for conducting the worst elections in Nigeria’s history, which he said fell even below the minimum standards.
He also said he believed in the judiciary to do justice, saying he was one of the biggest beneficiaries of the judiciary, having been there severally to reclaim his stolen mandates in the past and winning them all.
He also said the meeting with the PDP and other parties was not a merger but an exchange of ideas on how to move forward in the national interest.
